Flowing Data pointed out a cool map of the Internet created by Ruslan Enikeev. The map of the Internet is a searchable Internet map of links and bubbles, showing over 350,000 sites and two million links from 196 countries.
According to the developer’s blog, the Internet map is a scheme displaying objects’ relative position; but unlike real maps (e.g. the map of the Earth) or virtual maps (e.g. the map of Mordor), the objects shown on it are not aligned on a surface. Mathematically speaking, The Internet map is a bi-dimensional presentation of links between websites on the Internet. Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. Users’ switching between websites forms links, and the stronger the link, the closer the websites tend to arrange themselves to each other.
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This is cool and a time sink. Don’t check the Map of the Internet out at work, or you’ll find yourself exploring the Google cluster until its quitting time.
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