Method for ranking hyperlinked pages using content and connectivity analysis

A computerized method determines the ranking of documents including information content. The present method uses both content and connectivity analysis. An input set of documents is represented as a neighborhood graph in a memory. In the graph, each node represents one document, and each directed edge connecting a pair of nodes represents a linkage between the pair of documents. The input set of documents represented in the graph is ranked according to the contents of the documents. A subset of documents is selected from the input set of documents if the content ranking of the selected documents is greater than a first predetermined threshold. Nodes representing any documents, other than the selected documents, are deleted from the graph. The selected subset of documents is ranked according the linkage of the documents, and an output set of documents exceeding a second predetermined threshold is selected for presentation to users.