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Experience versus talent shapes the structure of the Web
Joseph S Kong1, Nima Sarshar, Vwani P Roychowdhury
1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Summary
The web
Area of Science:
- Web Science
- Network Analysis
- Information Retrieval
Background:
- The structure of the World Wide Web evolves dynamically.
- Understanding web evolution is crucial for information organization and retrieval.
Purpose of the Study:
- To empirically investigate the dynamics governing web structure evolution.
- To validate models explaining web growth and page importance.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of sequential large-scale web crawl data.
- Modeling web page dynamics using experience (inbound links) and fitness (outbound link probability).
Main Results:
- Web structure emerges from the interplay of page experience, fitness, and high page birth/death rates.
- Preferential attachment amplifies small fitness biases, leading to power-law distributions.
- Fitness estimates show potential for improving search result ranking.
Conclusions:
- The web exhibits characteristics of a meritocratic society, balancing established 'experience' with emerging 'fitness'.
- Page fitness is a key factor enabling new content to gain prominence.
- Fitness estimation offers practical applications in search engine optimization and ranking algorithms.
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