<b>Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less</b><br><br>The...

Terrence Miao - 2013-02-20 23:59:35+1100 - Updated: 2013-02-20 23:59:35+1100

Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less

The web is comprised of an estimated 14 billion web pages and 1 trillion web documents.

According to a Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási, it takes 19 steps or less to connect any random page to any other random page. And what’s more, no matter how big the Internet gets, the connection will stay the same.

Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/02/any-two-pages-on-the-web-are-connected-by-19-clicks-or-less/

Bryan Murphy - 2013-02-21 13:57:38+1100

Really just 2 steps. Google it and click.

James Gemmell - 2013-02-21 21:56:24+1100

I thought it'd be less than 19 given the Bacon number and six degrees of separation findings. I guess the web is deeper and far more meaningful than I ever imagined. :-)