%0 Journal Article %1 kleinberg1999hits %A Kleinberg, Jon M. %D 1999 %J Journal of the ACM %K hits ranking search sosbuch %N 5 %P 604--632 %T Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/kleinberg99authoritative.html %V 46 %X . The network structure of a hyperlinked environment can be a rich source of information about the content of the environment, provided we have effective means for understanding it. We develop a set of algorithmic tools for extracting information from the link structures of such environments, and report on experiments that demonstrate their effectiveness in a variety of contexts on the World Wide Web. The central issue we address within our framework is the distillation of broad search topics,...