Jon Kleinberg's Authoritative Sources in Hyperlinked Environment
In-Class Discussion Questions
 

1. Describe the context for this work. Who is Kleinberg? What was going on in research/commercially when this paper was written?

2. Define:

hub
authority
HITS
relevant
important
anchor Text
out-degree
in-degree
G[W] -- induced graph for a set of web pages W
transverse/intrinsic link
clustering
 

3. Describe the problem Kleinberg addresses in this paper (I think there's two key parts)?

4. Describe the general solution outlined in this paper.

5. Describe the way Kleinberg evaluates his solution. Does he prove his hypothesis?

6. What are the limitations of Kleinberg's approach?

7. Have the ideas in this paper been integrated into today's search engines? If so, what has been left out?

8. Is it worth it to look at "old" papers?   

9. What are some potential variations to the algorithm that you thought of or read about?

10. Go to citeseer.com, acm digital library, and google scholar. What is the differences between these digital libraries?