Besides the nice rime, I think this is an interesting hypothesis to test : In fact, the 6 degrees of separation original concept refers to the idea that, if you are one step away from each person you know and two steps away from each person related to the person you know, then there is an average of six “steps” that separates you from each person on Earth.

If we replace ‘person’ by ‘Information’ or ‘Website’ and if we replace ‘Earth’ by ‘Peartlrees’, we obtain an interesting statement:

“if you are one step away from each website you know (ie. In your tree) and two steps away from each website related to the Website you know, then there is an average of six “steps” that separates you from any website on Pearltrees.”

If this statement is true, the old search engines should be worried 😉

Karim

Filed under: Community by Karim Ayari on December 11th, 2008