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    The Internet Map

    Try to picture the internet and you invariably have a hard time. Fortunately, Ruslan Enikeev has decided to help you out by creating a map which organizes websites by popularity and similarity.

    The result is The Internet Map. In total, the whole map depicts 350,000 sites and two million links from 196 countries. Each site is represented by a circle, whose size depends on the amount of traffic, and the space between each one is determined by the frequency with which users jump from one to another. Enikeev explains:

    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.

    It's anybody's guess as to why porn's logical home is sandwiched between Brazil and Japan—but maybe that's one to leave for the comments. The map's a fairly effective time drain, as you might expect, as it's great fun to explore and see where your favorite websites appear.

    We, of course, couldn't resist taking a peek at where Giz appeared in the grand scheme of things: not far from from Twitter, in a little Gawker cluster all of our own. Home sweet home.


    The Internet Map

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    Re: The Internet Map

    Neat. But, Google, FB, and YouTube should be portrayed as the black holes that they are--sucking in time, life, and everything nearby.
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    Re: The Internet Map

    Just invert the image...

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    Re: The Internet Map

    Quote Originally Posted by Snowman View Post
    Just invert the image...
    True.

    Hmm, cosportbikeclub.org doesn't show up.
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    Re: The Internet Map

    We are the blackness surrounding the light...

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    Re: The Internet Map

    Quote Originally Posted by Snowman View Post
    We are the blackness surrounding the light...
    Lol, apt.
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    Re: The Internet Map

    They left out redtube lol
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    Re: The Internet Map

    Quote Originally Posted by maktastik_jr. View Post
    They left out redtube lol
    It's there ... wait.. how'd I know that.
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    Re: The Internet Map

    rofl, tons of pron sites represented

    couldn't he use referrals to pay for this?
    I have no idea what you're talking about.

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    Re: The Internet Map

    advrider.com is there :-)

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    Re: The Internet Map

    What might surprise many is that a large part of all that traffic is carried by Colorado based Level3.
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