April 10, 2004

Six Degrees Of Separation

by Jeremy Blachman

I started to do some thinking about whatever it is I'm going to end up writing for our Internet, Law, and Culture symposium that we'll start posting on Monday, and realized that it would be interesting to know how interconnected the World Wide Web really is -- like, with just clicking on links and not typing anything into a search engine or anything like that, how many clicks separate sites. So how closely connected, say, Instapundit is to ESPN. My guess is 2 clicks. Even if Instapundit doesn't link to ESPN, surely someone he links to does. And then I started to realize, at least within the weblog community, if you're getting more than 50 or 100 hits a day, you're probably within 2 or 3 clicks of something like Instapundit or Bashman, or some other pretty major site with a ton of links in the sidebar or in text. This may just be obvious to everyone, and I'm not sure what my point is really. Just thought it was interesting.

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