Describing The Web With Physics

Fungii writes: "There is a fascinating article over on physicsweb.com about 'The physics of the Web.' It gets a little technical, but it is a really interesting subject, and is well worth a read." And if you missed it a few months ago, the IBM study describing "the bow tie theory" (and a surprisingly disconnected Web) makes a good companion piece. One odd note is the reseachers' claim that the Web contains "nearly a billion documents," when one search engine alone claims to index more than a third beyond that, but I guess new and duplicate documents will always make such figures suspect.

Comments

19 clicks of seperation

[evilviper]

It seems like a sound theory to me...

Now I want to see an equally technical paper on the slashdot effect.

All is goo in the land of Microsloth

[clinton(x)]

Fucking Winders NT. I was going to summarily execute the machine it was running on (you guessed it - it crashed), drag it out into the car park and break into and hotwire my old best friend's dilapidated dumped de-registered car and start taking potshots, screaming howling berating and throwing Jack Daniels bottles at it whilst I reversed backward and forward over it, but then I calmed significantly and remembered that all is goo in the land of Microsloth.

19 Degrees of separation

[nihilogos]

That makes goatse.cx a little too close for comfort. Keep those homepages with pictures of your cat coming people.