The present invention is directed toward efficiently locating desired
information and, more specifically, to providing a system and method for
removing unnecessary multiple references to a common resource such as
redundant listed Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that reference the same
display URLs (and thus the same Web page) as another listed URL.
Consequently, in circumstances where only a smaller, finite number of
listed results are immediately used (such as displaying only the twenty
most relevant results on the first page presented to a search engine
end-user), the finite number of listed results may corresponds to a
greater number of unique display URLs than would otherwise occur absent
this form of filtering.