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THE INTERNET MAP

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THE MAP OF THE INTERNET

Like any other map, 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.


CHARGES AND SPRINGS

To draw an analogy from classical physics, one may say that websites are
electrically charged bodies, while links between them are springs. Springs pull
similar websites together, and the charge does not let the bodies adjoin and
pushes websites apart if there is no link between them. Originally, all such
electrified bodies (websites) are randomly scattered on the surface of the map.
Springs are stretched, repulsion energy is high – the system is far from being
at equilibrium. Then the websites start moving under the influence of the forces
exerted and in a while come to a halt – forces of attraction now become equal to
forces of repulsion, the system has reached its equilibrium. It is exactly that
state that is shown on The Internet map.

Also, an analogy can be drawn from quantum physics. In this case, a website is a
physical body with a finite mass, a single user is the mass quantum – the
much-spoken-about, yet-to-be-found Higgs’ boson (NB: was found in 2012), whereas
the act of user’s switching between sites is the gravitational quantum – the
graviton, another hypothetical particle.

Anyway, the real algorithm of plotting The Internet map is quite far from the
analogies given above. For those interested, the closest description of the
mathematical model can be found in the research [1], and the engineering
solution looks very similar to what has been described in [2]. Google Maps
engine has been used as the platform for displaying.


SEMANTIC WEB

The map of the Internet is a photo shot of the global network as of end of 2011.
It encompasses over 350 thousand websites from 196 countries and all domain
zones. Information about more than 2 million links between the websites has
joined some of them together into topical clusters. As one might have expected,
the largest clusters are formed by national websites, i.e. sites belonging to
one country. For the sake of convenience, all websites relative to a certain
country carry the same color. For instance, the red zone at the top corresponds
to Russian segment of the net, the yellow one on the left stands for the Chinese
segment, the purple one on the right is Japanese, the large light-blue central
one is the American segment, etc.

Importantly, clusters on the map are semantically charged, i.e. they join
websites together according to their content. For example, a vast porno cluster
can be seen between Brazil and Japan as well as a host of minor clusters uniting
websites of the same field or similar purposes.


THE INTERNET PHENOMENON

The Internet global network is a phenomenon of technological civilization, and
its exceptional complexity surpasses anything mankind has ever created. In
essence, what we are dealing with here is a huge quantity of utterly
unstructured information. The Internet map is an attempt to look into the hidden
structure of the network, fathom its colossal scale, and examine that which is
impossible to understand from the bare figures of statistics.


MAP OF HUMAN DISEASES

A scientific project was inspired by and used concept of the Internet map –
disease-map.net. You may also find interesting an article describing the layout
algorithm – Disease universe: Visualisation of population-wide disease-wide
associations.


IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS

I will appreciate any feedback. Please use the address internetmap.net@gmail.com
and check out the blog also.

The Internet map is a non-commercial project. You can share my expenses and let
more people see beauty of the Internet.



Thank you,
Ruslan Enikeev
author of the Internet map.
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