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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 1999)

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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.

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  1. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA

    Lada A. Adamic

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  1. Domaine de Voluceau, INRIA, BP 105, F-78153, Le Chesnay Cedex, France

    Serge Abiteboul  & Anne-Marie Vercoustre  & 

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Adamic, L.A. (1999). The Small World Web. In: Abiteboul, S., Vercoustre, AM. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1696. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48155-9_27

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