Growth dynamics of the World-Wide Web

Bernardo A. Huberman and Lada A. Adamic ()
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Bernardo A. Huberman: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Lada A. Adamic: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Nature, 1999, vol. 401, issue 6749, 131-131

Abstract: Abstract The exponential growth of the World-Wide Web has transformed it into an ecology of knowledge in which highly diverse information is linked in an extremely complex and arbitrary manner. But even so, as we show here, there is order hidden in the web. We find that web pages are distributed among sites according to a universal power law: many sites have only a few pages, whereas very few sites have hundreds of thousands of pages. This universal distribution can be explained by using a simple stochastic dynamical growth model.

Date: 1999
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