19. The system of claim 18 further comprising a feedback component that executes on the server and that incorporates feedback regarding the search results into the user interests.
18. An information dissemination system comprising: a profiler component that executes on a client and that identifies user interests, that derives key terms from terms extracted from the user interests, and that generates queries from one or more of the key terms, wherein the key terms are derived based on the relevance of the terms to the user interests; an information garnerer component that executes on a server and that obtains search results from executing the queries against information sources; a ranker component that executes on the server and that ranks the search results by, calculating a static weight for each search result, calculating a temporal weight for each search result, calculating a total weight for each search result based at least in part on the static and temporal weights, and ranking the search results based on the total weight of each search result; and a renderer component that executes on the server and that renders the ranked search results for viewing.