- From: Matt Jensen <mattj@newsblip.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:22:58 -0500 (EST)
- To: Gordon Joly <gordo@dircon.co.uk>
- cc: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>, Craig Pugsley <craig.pugsley@mimesweeper.com>, "'www-rdf-interest@w3.org'" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "'semantic-web@w3.org'" <semantic-web@w3.org>
No, I haven't proved it, but others have, with regard to requested URLs. Scroll down in footnote [1] until you see the section titled "Zipf's law in Web Access Statistics." There are 18 academic papers cited. Probably the most popular non-academic page describing this is Jakob Nielsen's page, "Zipf Curves and Website Popularity", at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/zipf.html. -Matt Jensen NewsBlip Seattle On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Gordon Joly wrote: > > [1] http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/zipf/ > > Have you proved that the described by Zipf's law? With which > parameters? Links? Pages? Pageviews? > > Gordo. > > -- > Gordon Joly http://www.pobox.com/~gordo/ > gordo@dircon.co.uk gordon.joly@pobox.com >
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