to the accompanying drawings the same reference numbers in different drawings may identify the same or similar elements also the following detailed description does not limit the invention a u201c document u201d as the term is used herein is to be broadly interpreted to include any machine readable and machine storable work product a document may include an e mail a web site a file a combination of files one or more files with embedded links to other files a news group posting a blog a web advertisement etc in the context of the internet a common document is a web page web pages often include textual information and may include embedded information such as meta information images hyperlinks etc and or embedded instructions such as javascript etc a u201c link u201d as the term is used here is to be broadly interpreted to include any reference to or from a document fig1 illustrates an overview of determining the freshness of a document according to an exemplary aspect of the invention as shown in fig1 a freshness score of a document p 105 may be based on freshness attributes 115 associated with each linking document 110 of a set of documents 100 that each have a link 120 pointing to document p 105.