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structure of the www the project is based on the principle of the universal readership. The web's implementation follows a standard client server model. in this model a user relies on a program to connect to a remote machine where the data is stored the architecture of the www.

the internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents pf the world wide web and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.

the www contains an enormous amount of information, but it can be exceedingly difficult for users to locate reassures that are both high in quality and relevant to their information needs. There are a number of fundamental reasons for this. The www is a hypertext corpus of enormous size approximately three hundred million web pages and it continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. But the variation in pages is even worse then raw scale of the data: the set of the web pages taken as a whole has almost no structure, with variability in authoring style and content that a far greater than in traditional collections of text documents.

index based search engines for the www have been one of the primary tools by which users of the web search for information. The largest such search engines exploit the fact that modern storage technology makes it possible to store and index a large fraction of the www; they can therefor build giant indices hat allow one to quickly retrieve the set of all web pages containing a given word or string

the dominant paradigm for world wide web navigation is pointing and clicking through traditional hypertext browsers. Clicking one's way through the web has become very popular, but can also be very disorienting.

Hypertext the version and the Emerging reality the hypertext- like nature of the world wide web introductions specific methodological problems for communication research, apart theoretical problems or opportunities. There are at least two reasons this is the case. First, the web,in a strict technical sense, does not use hypertext. second, communication, as it is structured on the web through the use of hypertext links, indeed may be substantively unique. The section takes up each of these reasons.

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