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Hypersearching the Web [Preview]

With the volume of on-line information in cyberspace growing at a breakneck pace, more effective search tools are desperately needed. A new technique analyzes how Web pages are linked together

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Every day the World Wide Web grows by roughly a million electronic pages, adding to the hundreds of millions already on-line. This staggering

volume of information is loosely held together by more than a billion annotated connections, called hyperlinks. For the first time in history, millions


This article was originally published with the title Hypersearching the Web.



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