Quote: can organize navigable structures by similarity; but all similarity is local without good-residue of things far away

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One interesting class of navigable structures makes use … there is some notion of similarity between objects. … [But] all similarity is purely local, and so … [For example, create a line graph with a letter for each edge and name the nodes by its edges' letters.] Despite the fact that "similar" objects are … to anything other than its immediate neighbors: There … WWW.   Google-1   Google-2

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