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A system and method for ranking wide area computer network (e.g., Web) pages by popularity in response to a query. Further, using a query and the response thereto from a search engine, the system and method finds additional key words that might be good extended search terms, essentially generating a

A system and method for ranking wide area computer network (e.g., Web) pages by popularity in response to a query. Further, using a query and the response thereto from a search engine, the system and method finds additional key words that might be good extended search terms, essentially generating a local thesaurus on the fly at query time.

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[ We claim:] [17.] A computer-implemented method for finding associations in computer-stored documents between document terms and query topics represented by one or more query terms, the documents having respective references to referred-to documents, the method comprising the steps of:receiving at

[ We claim:] [17.] A computer-implemented method for finding associations in computer-stored documents between document terms and query topics represented by one or more query terms, the documents having respective references to referred-to documents, the method comprising the steps of:receiving at least a list of documents in response to the query terms; andwhen a document term and a reference to a referred-to document are both found in a document within a predetermined distance of a query term, outputting a signal representative of an association between the document term and the query topic.