>"the web's access pattern would be exponential and overwhelming." It might well be overwhelming, but it wouldn't be exponential. There are a maximum of N choo

>"the web's access pattern would be exponential and overwhelming." It might well be overwhelming, but it wouldn't be exponential. There are a maximum of N choose 2 connections between N nodes. That number only grows quadratically as N increases, while exponential growth would outstrip quadratic, cubic or any polynomial growth for large values of N.