92. A search device configured to search electronic material stored in a computing environment, comprising: means for providing a plurality of documents; means for determining an undirected, weighted link between at least two of said plurality of documents, based on similarity; means for determining a directed, weighted link between at least two of said plurality of documents; means for adding said determined undirected, weighted links to said determined directed, weighted links to create a hybrid web having links; and means for 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.
92. A search device configured to search electronic material stored in a computing environment, comprising: means for providing a plurality of documents; means for determining an undirected, weighted link between at least two of said plurality of documents, based on similarity; means for determining a directed, weighted link between at least two of said plurality of documents; means for adding said determined undirected, weighted links to said determined directed, weighted links to create a hybrid web having links; and means for 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. 94. The search device according to claim 92 , 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.