ABS:19 clicks between any two websites

[Gretchen Whitney]

n.b.  I can't confirm this at the www.nature.com website.  --gw

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NewsScan Daily,  9 September 1999 ("Above The Fold")

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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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