[Gllug] He who controls the bootloader

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Steve Goodwin yowled:
> This lead me to thinking; what is the best connected site on the web? In
> quantity, that is - within X clicks, what page links to the maximum number
> of other pages. A kind of Erdos number for web sites, if you will? [I'm
> excluding gateway pages and search engines]

So do http://xxx.lanl.gov/ and the other preprint servers count?

> fwiw, I'm now thinking of the correlation of 'X clicks' to 'pages' for
> ranges of X, and the graph it produces, and how it relates to 'quality' of
> site...

Been done; there are lots of papers on it. It's a variant on the classic
`small-world' graph; tightly connected at close range, loosely connected
at longer range. Some search engines (such as MetaCrawler) use this to
help them out, dividing pages into `references' (link farms) and
`authorities' (pages that a lot of people link to)...

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