A unique system and method is provided that facilitates improving
relevance of search results over the initial searching ranking. The
system and method involve obtaining relevancy feedback for at least one
search result (user rated) and then generating a connectivity graph or
web-graph (for Web searches) for the user rated result. The relative
distance between results (or pages) in the graph can indicate relevancy
between those results. Thus, results within a particular distance from
the rated result can be considered related to the rated result and thus,
relevant or irrelevant depending on the particular rating for that
result. The connectivity graph can be employed to determine a re-ranking
of the search results.