Stigmergic hyperlinks are hyperlinks with a "heart beat": if used they stay healthy and online; if
neglected, they fade, eventually getting replaced. Their life attribute is a relative usage measure that
regular hyperlinks do not provide, hence PageRank-like measures have historically been well
informed about the structure of webs of documents, but unaware of what users effectively do with
the links.
This paper elaborates on how to input the users’ perspective into Google’s original, structure centric,
PageRank metric. The discussion then bridges to the Deep Web, some search challenges, and how
stigmergic hyperlinks could help decentralize the search experience, facilitating user generated
search solutions and supporting new related business models.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
