11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the determining whether the location relevant query is semantically charged is based on a utilization, in the location relevant query, of equivalent terms as those found in individual ones of a collection of reference materials.
9. A method for utilizing a computing device to generate a ranked list of entities associated with search results, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, at the computing device, search results to a location relevant query; deriving, with one or more processing units of the computing device, entities from the received search results; determining, with the one or more processing units, whether the location relevant query is semantically charged; ranking, with the one or more processing units, the derived entities as a single set only if the location relevant query is either not semantically charged or is an entity search; dividing, with one or more processing units, only if the location relevant query is semantically charged, the entities into at least a first part and a second part according to at least one relevance threshold such that those entities associated with a higher relevance than the at least one relevance threshold comprise the first part and those entities associated with a lower relevance than the at least one relevance threshold comprise the second part; ranking, with the one or more processing units, the entities in the first part utilizing a first ranking methodology; ranking, with the one or more processing units, the entities in the second part utilizing a second ranking methodology that is independent from the first ranking methodology; and concatenating, with the one or more processing units, the ranked entities in the second part onto an end of the ranked entities in the first part.