[PCA] NEWS: Googling a Worldwide Food Web of Extinction

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08obextinct.html?ref=science

Googling a Worldwide Food Web of Extinction
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Published: September 4, 2009

A major reason Google's search engine is so successful is its PageRank 
algorithm, which assigns a pecking order to Web pages based on the pages 
that point to them. A page is important, according to Google, if other 
important pages link to it.

But the Internet is not the only web around. In ecology, for instance, 
there are food webs -- the often complex networks of who eats whom.

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