Re: Linking = Showing = Transferring?

Suppose we interpret Linking = Showing as

For all web pages x and y,
Showing(x) and  Linkto(x,y) --> Showing(y)

Meaning:  In all cases, if a page is being shown and it links to another
page, then the other page is being shown.

With this kind of transitivity I would not be surprised if a third of the
web sites are showing pornography.

For example (made up titles!), Transitors --> Electronics Distributers -->
Ray's TV --> Springfield Businesses --> Bob's Photography --> Plenty
Pictures --> Photography Resources --> Asian, Female --> World Nudity -->
John's Porno Shop.  The poor guy trying to be helpful to those learning
electronics now has a pornopage.

Perhaps some kind of fuzzy logic could apply.  If one believes in such a
thing.

I wonder if I have a pornopage.

Dar

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Alan Barrett writes:
 > > I wonder if I have a pornopage.
 > Of course you do (assuming the stupid transitive definition of a
 > pornopage). 

 > Start at your home page
[...]
One could define some kind of new metrics let dp(x) shortest number of
hops to go from page x to any "porn" (sexy) page,
Now, I bet that dp(x) < infinity for any page x that have links on
their site that goes outside their site, thanks to the "strange
attractor" represented by search engines & index, which are the most
linked pages

<dp(x)> (mean dp) is prolly around 4 or 5

For instance, what is the pornography distance of whitehouse ? 
Without complete search, their dp(http://www.whitehouse.gov/)<=7 :

-> textual representation of this page.  {sorry, i had to go there,using lynx}
http://www.whitehouse.gov/White_House/html/White_House_Home-plain.html
-> Executive Branch
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/White_House/EOP/html/3_parts-plain.html)
-> government information locator service (GILS)
(http://info.er.usgs.gov/gils/index.htm)
-> IMAGINATION NEEDED HERE!
(http://www.usgs.gov/public/gils/imagine.html)
-> [Other Topics]   {lots of remote pointers, but lots of outdated links too}
(http://www.usgs.gov/public/gils/other.html)
-> Another List of Internet Search facilities {netscape's search page}
(http://home.mcom.com/home/internet-search.html)
Search for "playboy" for instance at infoseek, or anything in
fact... (btw where is that fast playboy's mirror ?)
-> sexy pages!

Regards
dl

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> I wonder if I have a pornopage.

Of course you do (assuming the stupid transitive definition of a
pornopage). 

Start at your home page
    http://www.swcp.com/~correspo/DSC/DarScott.html
--> follow link to "National Instruments" in second paragraph
    http://www.natinst.com/
--> follow link to "Reference" a few lines form the bottom of the page
    http://www.natinst.com/links.htm
--> "WWW Virtual Library" near the top of the page
    http://epims1.gsfc.nasa.gov/engineering/ee.html
--> "WWW Virtual Library" right at the top of page
    http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
--> "Other virtual libraries" near the bottom of the (rather long) page
    http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Virtual_libraries/Overview.html
--> "Yahoo - A Guide to WWW"
    http://www.yahoo.com/
--> "Entertainment"
    http://www.yahoo.com/text/Entertainment/
--> "Magazines"
    http://www.yahoo.com/text/Entertainment/Magazines/
--> "Sex"
    http://www.yahoo.com/text/Entertainment/Magazines/Sex/
--> you figure out the rest