ABSTRACT
The World Wide Web has grown at an enormous rate. By the middle of the year 2000, there were around 50 millions sites worldwide, some 200 million forecast by the end of 2001. In fact the growth of the Web is strongly analogous to the growth in connectivity of a random graph. This phenomenon, first observed by Erdos and Renyi (1960), underlies many properties of complex interactive systems, as elsewhere demonstrated by David Green (Bossomaier & Green 2000).
