Table 1.   Mixture parameters alpha , modes 2m(1 - alpha ), and power law tail exponents gamma  = 1 + 1/alpha for inbound links to category-specific homepages, and for inbound and outbound links on the web as a whole


Data set  alpha Mode  gamma

Companies 0.950 136 2.05
Newspapers 0.948 87 2.05
Web inlinks 0.909 0 2.10
Universities 0.612 839 2.63
Scientists 0.602 7 2.66
Web outlinks 0.581 8 2.72