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Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics

LATIN 2000: LATIN 2000: Theoretical Informatics pp 123–125Cite as

Graph Structure of the Web: A Survey

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The subject of this survey is the directed graph induced by the hyperlinks between Web pages; we refer to this as the Web graph. Nodes represent static html pages and hyperlinks represent directed edges between them. Recent estimates [5] suggest that there are several hundred million nodes in the Web graph; this quantity is growing by several percent each month. The average node has roughly seven hyperlinks (directed edges) to other pages, making for a total of several billion hyperlinks in all.

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Raghavan, P. (2000). Graph Structure of the Web: A Survey. In: Gonnet, G.H., Viola, A. (eds) LATIN 2000: Theoretical Informatics. LATIN 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1776. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10719839_13

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