12. A system in accordance with claim 11 wherein when a note generated in said note panel is selected and copied to a data repository a relevance of the note with respect to the at least one keyword is increased.
11. A system for improving the relevancy of electronic search results over a plurality of searches comprising: an adaptive search engine communicatively coupled to a plurality of data items from one or more data sources stored in at least one database, said data sources searchable using a first search query entered by a user wherein said first search query comprises at least one keyword, said adaptive search engine configured to generate a ranked search result listing, the ranked search result listing comprising one or more file identifiers, wherein each of the one or more file identifiers corresponds to one of the plurality of data items; a processor; and a user interface configured to: display to the user the ranked search result listing of file identifiers in a first display area, receive, from the user, a selection of one of the file identifiers, wherein the data item corresponding to the selected file identifier is ranked with a first ranking in the search result listing, facilitate opening the data item that corresponds to the selected file identifier, display a content of the data item to the user, receive, from the user, a selection of at least a portion of the content of the data item for adding to a note panel associated with said first search query as a note, wherein the selection is received via copying and pasting or dragging and dropping the portion of the content into the note panel by the user, wherein the portion of the content is determined by the user to be relevant to said first search query; increase, via the processor, a relevancy ranking of the data item with respect to the at least one keyword as the note is added to the note panel, and wherein the increased relevancy ranking causes the data item to be ranked with a second ranking higher than the first ranking in a future search result listing generated using the same at least one keyword; store the portion of the content in the note panel associated with said first search query such that the note panel is accessible at a future time by at least one of the user and a second user; and provide the at least one of the user and the second user with the portion of the content when responding to a second search query similar to said first search query by locating and accessing the note panel associated with said first search query.