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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

An Internet Map? This is just too awesome.

If you have been having trouble finding sites on the internet then your troubles might have just come to an end for someone just came up with an internet map. If you have got real stuff to do though, the internet map might be one cool time waster to you which can as well turn you into a mindless page surfer for as long as you live. 

The internet map consists of the most popular 350,000 websites from all areas around the world that have been categorized based on the country they are from as well as the genre they fall in. If the popularity of a site is very high then its dot on the internet map will be larger. Some of the sites that have the largest dots on the internet map include the heavy weights like Google, Facebook and Yahoo. You can as well just have fun exploring the smaller dots when you are on the internet map. Some of those sites with smaller dots are interesting too. Another thing you can do is search for a unique website and then locate its virtual neighborhood so that you can have access to other sites close to it.

The algorithm used by the internet map to determine where each site should be placed is pretty complex. It was created by a Russian guy called Ruslan Enikeev who was came up with it as a non-commercial labor of love. You can visit the map and have a look at it. It looks pretty cool!

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