1. Hyperlinks and search engines
Ole-Andreas Rognstad, CeRMIT, Department of Private Law
Jon Bing, CeRMIT and NRCCL, Department of Private Law
Master lecture 25 October 2006

2. Web page with hyperlink

3. HTML rendering of hyperlink
<a href="
Books (from Lovdatas webpages)</a><br>

4. Request triggered by hyperlink

5. Initialising request
IP address resolved by name server
Request forwarded to resource
Requested resource copied and communicated with a media type definition
If media type other than HTML, appropriate plug-in looked for
If plug-in not found, user requested to select
If plug-in found, program loaded, resource displayed or performed

6. Search engine indexing and caching

7. Search engine indexing
Identifying new sites by following hyperlinks
Extracting part of the material from top
Copying extract to home site
Indexing of extract
Storing of extract
Extract stored because re-indexed frequently, using new algorithms
Displaying KWIC for relevance function