The Small World Web

  • Authors:
  • Lada A. Adamic

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ECDL '99 Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

I show that the World Wide Web is a small world, in the sense that sites are highly clustered yet the path length between them is small. I also demonstrate the advantages of a search engine which makes use of the fact that pages corresponding to a particular search query can form small world networks. In a further application, the search engine uses the small-worldness of its search results to measure the connectedness between communities on the Web.