1. A method for creating a concept-object database by an electronic computer, the method comprising: producing an initial set of semantic objects, each semantic object including a reference to encoded information and an initial list of one or more tags; binding hyperlinks to semantic objects and processing the hyperlink-bound semantic objects in order to produce a set of first-level concept objects; and binding additional hyperlinks to first-level concept objects and further processing the additional-hyperlink-bound first-level concept objects to produce a set of concept objects stored in a concept-object database by searching electronically encoded information, such as web pages within the world-wide web, to identify hyperlinks within the electronically encoded information to identify hyperlinks contained in the electronically encoded information, each identified hyperlink encoded in a hyperlink-based object; and for each semantic object, binding, to the semantic object, hyperlinks that reference the encoded information referenced by the semantic object to create a hyperlink context for each semantic object, determining whether a hyperlink-bound semantic object can be promoted to a first-level concept object, and when hyperlink-bound semantic object can be promoted to a first-level concept object, processing the hyperlink-bound semantic object to produce a corresponding first-level concept object associated with emergent terms.