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January 11, 2005VisitorVille Tracks Users From Thousands of Companies
When I heard about VisitorVille, I was a bit surprised. How could a company be gathering information on the surfing habits of so many people? Turns out the information comes from a meta-database that VisitorVille maintains that holds visitor records...
Continue reading "VisitorVille Tracks Users From Thousands of Companies" » October 31, 2003Hey, Where'd My Internet Reference Go?
The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center has done a study of Internet references cites in medical journals, and has discovered what many of us know much to our chagrin; Internet references can disappear very quicky. " Internet references accounted...
January 13, 2003Filippo Menczer Looks At Search Engine Results
Filippo Menczer, an assistant professor of Management Sciences at the University of Iowa, has been exploring how Web sites relate to each other. He analyzed a sample of 150,000 web pages, studying the relationships between text, links and meaning,...
Continue reading "Filippo Menczer Looks At Search Engine Results" » October 08, 2001Web Not Growing As Fast As It Used To
The OCLC released the results of its annual World Wide Web survey last week, and while the Web is still growing it's not growing as fast. According to OCLC research, the public web (that is, "a distinct location on the...
July 11, 2000Newsflash: The Web is REALLY BIG!
Internet company Cyveillance has released a study, "Sizing the Internet" that puts the current size of the Web at 2.1 billion "unique, publicly available pages." The study further estimated that the Web was growing at more than seven million pages...
February 09, 200019 clicks of separation
Tom Paulson of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer takes a look at the "19 clicks of separation" theory of the Web. FASCINATIN' stuff. "Scientists say [the web is] developing according to the same organizing patterns and mathematical principles observed among plant life...
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