Scientists Construct Model of the World Wide Web

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Traffic statistics for the Web page http:reverent.orgtrueartorfakeart.html where the long periods of low activity and short bursts of high activity are similar to other sites that the researchers analyzed. Credit: Simkin and Roychowdhury.
Traffic statistics for the Web page http://reverent.org/true_art_or_fake_art.html, where the long periods of low activity and short bursts of high activity are similar to other sites that the researchers analyzed. Credit: Simkin and Roychowdhury.
Although the Internet contains well over 100 million Web sites, two electrical engineers think they know what the traffic patterns of the entire Web look like.


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