- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 15:48:11 -0400
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
ON THE WEB, 19 CLICKS WILL GET YOU ANYWHERE In a study reported in the science journal Nature, the University of Notre Dame physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and his colleagues found that any two randomly selected Web pages are on average only 19 clicks away from one another. The researchers determined this by constructing algorithms that collected all the links on a Web page and then followed them to their destinations, and repeating the process over and over again. Why is this important? Steve Lawrence, a NEC Research Institute expert on search design, explains, "Knowing something about the topology lets you know how far you need to go to catch something that might be out there. The search engine companies are going to benefit from this kind of knowledge." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 9 Sep 99) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/008115.htm
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