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As mentioned
above, the assignment or renewal of a guarantee of existence is an
indirect statement about the relevance of a document. Documents with
a long guarantee of existence seem more important than those with a
shorter one. This might not apply to individual cases but on the
whole it is absolutely imaginable.
One of the
biggest problems within large information systems is to retrieve
relevant information or, in other words, to separate the wheat from
the chaff. Ranking mechanisms (or ranking algorithms) play an
important role. They determine the order in which retrieved
information is listed.
The incredible
success of Google can be attributed to refined ranking mechanisms.
Information is much more worth seeing if it is referenced by other
websites which are in turn classified as worth seeing. Here, the
realization that the linking of texts could be a relevant indicator
for the importance of information was decisive.
In addition,
the assured and indicated availability of information could be
accepted as a criteria. Hence, it could be imaginable to consider the
guaranteed availability of documents in ranking mechanisms. Whether
this applies to search engines or to enclosed information systems is
not important.
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