[NCLUG] short article about WebFountain

[Alan Silverstein]

Not about Linux, but this recent Science News web-only article might
especially interest folks who are on this email list...

    http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040306/mathtrek.asp

    Mining the Tagged Web

    ...rearchers at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif.,
    began an effort to study the Web as a mathematical graph...
    ...researchers conducted Web crawls that encompassed 200 million
    pages and 1.5 billion hyperlinks.  They confirmed that the
    distribution of pages and link number follows a simple mathematical
    relationship known as a power law...

Regards,
Alan Silverstein, http://users.frii.com/ajs