The question to be discussed in this part is “Why Link?” Linking is the sine qua non of the Internet's most popular information access tool, the World Wide Web, and there are millions of links in place today. Links allow quick access to information that otherwise could take days or even years to find. Linking also permits the user to determine how deeply to explore a particular topic. A particular link may or may not be followed, depending upon the subjective importance of the information to the user. In most cases, the operator of a web-page will desire her page to be the destination of as many links as possible: More links means more hits, and more hits means wider dissemination of whatever information the page is designed to get across. Since most links do not (or cannot) conceal from the end-user the source from which information is being provided, there is little danger that the source of the content on a web-page will be misrepresented. (Brad Bolin of www.bitlaw.com)
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