1. A system for determining a quantitative measure of search efficiency of related Web pages, comprising: a stored information goal and identifying a target Web page within a plurality of Web pages; a search prompt to facilitate searching the information goal via a search function in the Web pages to identify potential Web pages that each include at least one hyperlink referencing and proximal cues relating to distal content included in another potential Web page; an activation network, comprising: building a directed graph comprising nodes corresponding to the potential Web pages and arcs corresponding to the hyperlinks; and assigning a weight to each arc to represent a probability of traversal of the corresponding hyperlink based on a relatedness of keywords in the information goal to the proximal cues included in the referenced Web page; and a simulator to evaluate a traversal through the activation network to the node corresponding to the target Web page as a quantitative measure of search efficiency.