1. In a system having data maintained in electronic file storage, said data corresponding to a plurality of physical entities, a computer-implemented method for retrieving indicia of said physical entities from said data, the method comprising acts of: (A) receiving at least one search criterion from a user; (B) creating a query based on the at least one search criterion; (C) executing the query against the electronic file storage to generate results, each of the results corresponding to a respective data entity which satisfies the at least one search criterion and corresponds to a respective physical entity; (D) arranging the results into an order, the order being determined at least in part by a characteristic of the physical entity corresponding to each result and a previous act by a user with respect to the physical entity; and (E) displaying the results to the user.