Thanks to my class, Webology, at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Spring 1996, for the opportunity of testing these ideas on an unsympathetic audience, and to Don Foresta of the University of Paris for suggesting this idea in the first place. In a joint research project currently under way, we hope to actually carry out the fractal dimension strategy, presenting our results on the WWW at http://www.vismath.org/webometry. Many thanks to the London School of Economics and the University of Paris for grants making this research possible, and to the Istituto di Scienze Economiche of the University of Urbino for hospitality during the writing of this paper.

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