Patent ID: 7392278

Claim:
A system that facilitates searching, comprising: a display component that presents a plurality of subwebs to search on over a collection of items, the plurality of subwebs respectively are associated with a plurality of subsets of the items, wherein each of the items is weighted by relevance and displayed in an order based in part on distribution paths associated with each of the items, and wherein each item of a respective subweb of the plurality of subwebs is given a specified priority based on an amount of usage and an item of a specified priority level is crawled at a higher frequency than items of a priority level that is lower than the specified priority level or items that are not associated with a subweb; a search component that searches the collection of items based in part on a received search-word query and ranks each item of the collection of items; a subweb selector component that selects at least one subweb of the plurality of subwebs based in part on the search-word query received by the searching component, wherein each item returned by the search-word query is assigned a combined rank and correspondingly ordered among other returned items based in part on the rank assigned by the search component and the relevance weight assigned to a respective item that is based in part on distribution paths associated with the respective item, the distribution paths determined based in part on a number of instances the respective item was returned as a result of disparate search-word queries, and inlinks and outlinks related to the respective item; and an input component that receives the search-word query over at least one of the subwebs.