Supporting Web Search and Navigation by an Overlay Linking Structure

Search and navigation in hyperlinked networks have been subjects of research since the Internet emerged. Due to its incompleteness in terms of linking related content, the existing linking structure of the Web and similar networks cannot be utilized as a searchable index without prior application of suitable crawling strategies and content categorization.
Following the example of sitemaps, a map-like extension to the existing link structure of the network is proposed that creates additional...