1. NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law) Hyperlinks and search engines Jon Bing NRCCL, Department of Private Law Master lecture 13 November 2007

2. NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law) Web page with hyperlink

3. NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law) HTML rendering of hyperlink Books (from Lovdatas webpages)

4. NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law) Request triggered by hyperlink

5. NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law) 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. NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law) Search engine indexing and caching

7. NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law) 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