Ideas & Trends: Shall I Compare Thee to a Swarm of Insects?; Searching for the
Essence of the World Wide Web
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Lada Adamic, a Stanford University graduate student working on Xerox PARC's
Internet ecology project, recently found that cyberspace, like the world
described in the John Guare play ''Six Degrees of Separation,'' is a small place
indeed. Just as any two people on Earth are said to be connected by a human
chain of acquaintance with no more than a few links, so can you pick two Web
sites at random and get from one to the other with about four clicks.
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I don't think the "six degrees" stuff is published yet, but for related bits,
see http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/groups/iea/www/internetecologies.html
Larry
-- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter