Ecology of active and passive players and their impact on information selection

G. Bianconi, P. Laureti, Y.-K. Yu and Y.-C. Zhang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004, vol. 332, issue C, 519-532

Abstract: Is visitors’ attendance a fair indicator of a web site's quality? Internet sub-domains are usually characterized by power-law distributions of visits, thus suggesting a rich-get-richer process. If this is the case, the number of visits is not a relevant measure of quality. If, on the other hand, there are active players, i.e., visitors who can tell the value of the information available, better sites start getting richer after a crossover time.

Keywords: Internet; Information; Ranking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.10.005

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