The Scale-free nature of the Web This article was originally entitled "The Fractal nature of the web". Since then, i have been assured that while many people seem to use fractal to refer to a Zipf (1/f) distribution, it should really only be used in spaces of finite dimension, like the two-dimensional planes of MandelBrot sets. The correct term for the Web, then, is scale-free. This isn't an observation so much as a requirement. I have discussed elsewhere how we must avoid the two opposite so...
