1. A method for searching electronic material stored in a computing environment using a computer, comprising: providing a plurality of documents; determining, using the computer, an undirected, weighted link between at least two of said plurality of documents, based on similarity; determining, using the computer, 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, using the computer, 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.
1. A method for searching electronic material stored in a computing environment using a computer, comprising: providing a plurality of documents; determining, using the computer, an undirected, weighted link between at least two of said plurality of documents, based on similarity; determining, using the computer, 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, using the computer, 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. 9. The method of claim 1 , wherein said at least one of forward link analysis and backward link analysis comprises: determining an authority-like score for a document using a non-compound, non-normalized Forward operator and not using a Backward operator; and determining a hub-like score for a document using a non-compound, non-normalized Backward operator and not using a forward operator such that said steps of determining an authority-like score and determining a hub-like score are mathematically decoupled.