There is this bow tie theory of the shape of the WWW graph...

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/webmap_press.html

Valdis



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> I remember seeing a print out of a "map" of links in cyberspace
> several years ago (map of links off of websites). It was in a
> professional techy (not academic techy) magazine. It was sort of
> figure eight shaped overall with a couple of bottle necks but also
> with dense links parts near the middle of the eight sort of like the
> hub of a wheel and mostly went to other dense areas relatively few
> links away, it had several larger loops with few ways in or out of
> the loops that had mostly a "ring" configuration overall (some of
> these loops were pretty distant from the center of the eight and if I
> remember correctly one had dense connections on one corner of the
> ring to outside the ring and then went mostly to stuff unconnected
> outside the ring,, there were also  several larger area that were
> pretty inner connected/dense that were very close to the "bottle
> necks".
>
> Carolyn
>
> >Kartoo is a search engine that displays network results.
> >I recall someone posting its coordinates a while ago; here is a longer
> >description.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> >(See the graphical version of this issue at http://www.infovis.net/E-zine/2=
> >002/num_97.htm)
> >
> >A new meta search engine, KartOO (http://www.kartoo.com), was launched on A=
> >pril 25th, 2002. It=92s based on a technology developed for 3 years by Laur=
> >ent Baleydier and his team, from the company Kartoo.S.A. constituted in 200=
> >1 and successor of Alcyon Interactive Company