86. A tangible computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a program that when executed performs a method of searching electronic material stored in a computing environment, said method comprising: providing a plurality of documents; determining an undirected, weighted link between at least two of said plurality of documents, based on similarity; determining a directed, weighted link between at least two of said plurality of documents; adding said determined undirected, weighted links to said determined directed, weighted links to create a hybrid web having links; and performing a link analysis algorithm taking the links of said hybrid web as its input, said algorithm including at least one of forward link analysis and backward link analysis, wherein the output of said algorithm is a set of link analysis scores.
88. The tangible computer readable storage medium according to claim 86 , wherein said at least one of forward and backward link analysis comprises using at least one of a non-compound Forward operator and a non-compound Backward operator.