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February 19, 2013 04:05 am GMT
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No Two Web Pages Separated by More Than 19 Clicks, Study Says
If you're ever feeling lost in the vacuum of cyber space, don't despair. The web is woven tighter than you might expect -- in fact, you're probably just a few clicks away from your homepage.
Apparently, no two pages on the web are separated by more than 19 clicks. That's according to research recently published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
The researcher, Hungarian physicist Albert-Lszl Barabsi, is something of an expert on network theory. He authored a book called Linked: The New Science of Networks, which was published in 2002.
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