What do the Neighbours Think? Computing Web Page Reputations

The textual content of the Web enriched with the hyperlink structure surrounding it can be a useful source of information for querying and searching. This paper presents a search process where the input is the URL of a page, and the output is a ranked set of topics on which the page has a reputation. For example, if the input is www.gamelan.com, then a possible output is "Java." We describe a simple formulation of the notion of reputation of a page on a topic, and report some experiences in the use of this formulation.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: DEBU
• Authors: Alberto O. Mendelzon, Davood Rafiei
• Keywords: DEBU 2000, Hyperlink Structure, Textual Content, Useful Source