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AP) — Any two randomly picked pages on the World
e Web are on average just 19 clicks away from each
searchers say.
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Nature, suggest that the Web is so interconnected
any desired information is nearby even though
e are 800 million documents available. The key is
wing which links to click.
'he study calls to mind the movie and Broadway
i Six Degrees of Separation — which holds that all
190S, Sta:. pj e are connected to one another by no more than
lowers sau individuals — and the party game “Six Degrees of
?nt andirrep,m,Bacon,” in which players try to make a con-
i Austin i t j 0n between actor Kevin Bacon and another
5 brity using six or fewer other stars and movies.
The study was conducted by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi,
niversity of Notre Dame physics professor.
Fhev constructed a robot that collected all the links
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on a Web page and followed them to their destination.
The process was repeated over and over again.
Using statistical tools, they figured out the average
distance between two random pages. And even if the
Web grows 1,000 percent, the distance would change
only from 19 clicks to 21.
Search engine companies could use the findings
to create programs that more intelligently figure out
what’s available. A recent study showed that even
the best search engine scours onlyabout 34 percent
of the Web.
“Knowing something about the topology lets you
know how far you need to go to catch something
that might be out there,” Steve Lawrence, a re
searcher at the NEC Research Institute and co-au
thor of a previous study on the effectiveness of
searches, said. “The search engine companies are
going to benefit from this kind of knowledge.”
egiapongress returns to work
awmakersface spending issues, health-care questions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Re-
>al Man blican-controlled Congress re-
iLtnigor. - net i to W ork yesterday, tugged
.opoz whir conflicting forces of compro-
se and confrontation with the
: school: bite House on tax cuts, spend-
idors in ’ g, health care, gun control and
d publicf her issues likely to dominate the
lal months of the year,
ils ruledth: “I don’t see any indication the
i merit opn esident wants to work with us,”
wsuit aga Tiate Majority Leader Tbent Lott, R-
- said s... iss., told reporters after predicting
■hurcha: Taction-packed” September and
aih at - :tober. “What the president wants
drum!sin: more spending, more spending,
■dgc at: ore spending for everything.”
Senate Democratic leader Tom
rators: ; aschle sounded only slightly less
would ?ssimistic about the prospects for
Ny.uis; ampromise. He said he had talked
'ith Lott, and he expressed the
aon. Lon °P e they could work together,
not advise; But . h e added, “Clearly we [De-
tocrats] will fight and we will ag-
itendem Massively pursue” an agenda that
0 ■ . tcludes gun control, education,
legislation relating to HMDs, an in
crease in the minimum wage and
money for hard-hit farmers.
Both sides immediately began
jockeying for position on education.
'What the president
wants is more spending,
more spending, more
spending for everything.”
— Trent Lott
Senate Majority Leader
Daschle, D-S.D., listed the issue as
part of the Democrats’ fall agenda,
and House Speaker Dennis Hastert
traveled to an elementary school to
underscore Republican support.
There, he issued a call to President
Clinton to “work together in educa
tion. Let’s take steps today that will
make our nation’s schools better. ”
Clinton, too, talked of compro
mise during the day, at the same
time he prodded Republicans to
move legislation on health care.
“Ever since we’ve had this divid
ed government, we normally have to
wait till the 11th hour for really good
things to happen. ... As I said a cou
ple of days ago, it is now 10:30, we’re
ready for the 11th hour,” he said.
The House and Senate both
spent the day debating routine
spending measures during the day,
preludes to larger clashes looming
just over the horizon.
Lott said tax cut legislation ap
proved before Congress’ break
would go to the White House next
week for its threatened veto.
Clinton’s rejection of the mea
sure will present Republicans with
an important decision: whether to
set the issue aside until next year’s
election campaign or attempt to
work out a compromise that also
would cover issues as diverse as
spending and Medicare.
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