Ecology of active and passive players and their impact on information selection

Is visitors’ attendance a fair indicator of a web site's quality? Internet sub-domains are usually characterized by power-law distributions of visits, thus suggesting a rich-get-richer process. If this is the case, the number of visits is not a relevant measure of quality. If, on the other hand, there are active players, i.e., visitors who can tell the value of the information available, better sites start getting richer after a crossover time.

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Year of publication:	2004
Authors:	Bianconi, G. ; Laureti, P. ; Yu, Y.-K. ; Zhang, Y.-C.
Published in:	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 332.2004, C, p. 519-532
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Internet \| Information \| Ranking

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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