After committing the cardinal sin of using the “Web 2.0″ phrase in a previous post, I was curious enough to look round some other sites to see what sorts of nonsense there is out there.

By pure chance, I also looked through the logfiles and statistics on several of the sites I have access to and I found some recent indexing by a bot which identified itself as “complex_network_group” from http://cantor.ee.ucla.edu/~networks/crawl . To check what bot it was (and decide to allow or block via a .htaccess edit), I visited the site in question.

It appears to be a project of the UCLA complex networks group who carry out research into “the science and engineering of complex networks and systems.”

Now the main thrust of this post is about the lead sentence on the Crawl page mentioned above. It outlines the Objective and reads: (verbatim extract)

To develop, a multi-paradigm network modeling framework, together with a characterization of tradeoffs between speed and accuracy for multiple modeling approaches, as a function of different types and scales of networks, protocols, traffic and application types, and metrics.

Seriously, that is a single sentence. Wow. What an amazing combination of buzz words. I can only assume they used a random word generator for this…

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