Navigating the World Wide Web
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چکیده
Navigation (colloquially known as “surfing”) is the activity of following links and browsing web pages. This is a time intensive activity engaging all web users seeking information. We often get “lost in hyperspace” when we lose the context in which we are browsing, giving rise to the infamous navigation problem. So, in this age of information overload we need navigational assistance to help us find our way through the tangled web of pages and links. Search engines partially solve this problem by locating relevant documents and finding “good” starting points for navigation, but more navigational assistance is needed to guide users through and between web sites.
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