12. The method of claim 1 wherein a transition probability of transitioning between a source document and a target document is based on number of links on documents that are a look-ahead distance from the source document, the look-ahead distance being based on number of links needed to transition from a source document to a target document.
1. A method in a computing device for determining importance of documents with links between documents, the method comprising: generating transition probabilities of transitioning between pairs of source and target documents based on a determination of information available through each target document of a source document, each source document having one or more links to target documents of that source document, the transition probability for transitioning from a source document to a target document is based on the number of links on that target document and the total number of links on the target documents of that source document; storing the generated transition probabilities in a transition probability matrix; calculating importance of documents based on a stationary distribution of the generated transition probabilities stored in the transition probability matrix, the stationary distribution including stationary probabilities of visiting documents; and storing the calculated importance of the documents.