Less random than people thought:

“Any effort to map the Internet is necessarily incomplete and out of

date the moment it appears. Instead, Albert-Laslo Barabasi and his

colleagues at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana, treat the net

as though it were a natural phenomenon. What scientists generally do

with a natural phenomenon that they do not understand is to build a

model of it. Dr Barabasi’s latest paper on the matter, just published

in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents a

general framework for improving the accuracy of Internet models.” The Economist