Web Dynamics, Structure, and Page Quality

Summary. This chapter is aimed at the study of quantitative measures of the relation between the dynamics of the Web, its structure, and the quality of Web pages. Quality is studied using different link-based metrics and considering their relationship with the structure of the Web and the last modification time of a page. We show that, as expected, Pagerank is biased against new pages, and we obtain information on how recency is related with Web structure.