Akademik

n.

The study of the content, structure, and interconnections of the World Wide Web.

"As the world is increasingly coming to appreciate, physical space and cyberspace operate according to different rules. In what they describe as a new science of Webology, computer scientists at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Silicon Valley recently funneled a large portion of the Web, about 55 million pages (leaving out the pictures), onto 400 billion bytes of disk space. Held in captivity in Palo Alto, this Web in a Box is poked and prodded, studied like a great beast — or, to use the metaphor the researchers prefer, like an ecosystem."

— George Johnson, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Swarm of Insects?; Searching for the Essence of the World Wide Web," The New York Times