Patent ID: 8612417

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a server system, from a client system, a forward query, wherein the forward query is associated with a querying user; in response to the forward query, the server system performing: identifying a plurality of documents that satisfy said forward query; generating a forward search report for the forward query, the forward search report identifying the plurality of documents as a forward search result for the forward query; sending the forward search report to the client system; for at least a particular document in the plurality of documents identified in the forward search report, identifying data that was submitted by one or more users, including at least one user other than the querying user, in response to the one or more users receiving one or more previous search results in which the particular document was identified; generating an inverse search report, the inverse search report comprising information included in or derived from the data that was submitted by the one or more users, including the at least one user other than the querying user, in response to the one or more users receiving the one or more previous search results in which the particular document was identified; sending the inverse search report to the client system; causing the client system to display the inverse search report in association with the particular document in the forward search report; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.