Crawling on web graphs

Abstract
We consider a simple model of an agent (which we call a spider) moving between the nodes of a randomly growing web graph. It is presumed that the agent examines the page content of the node for some specific topic. In our model the spider makes a random walk on the existing set of vertices. We compare the success of the spider on web graphs of two distinct types. For a random graph web graph model, in which new vertices join edges to existing vertices uniformly at random, the expected...

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