17. A method for providing responses to a search query on the worldwide web where the responses are split across electronic documents, the method comprising the steps of: collecting a set of documents, each document containing at least one of a plurality of keywords from the search query; analyzing each document in said set to determine a content characteristic in a predefined neighborhood adjacent to at least one of said plurality of keywords in that document; comparing a content characteristic associated with a document in the set against the content characteristic of other documents in said set and determining a level of similarity of content characteristic for each pair of documents compared; and providing as query responses URLs for those document pairs having a level of similarity of content characteristic determined to be greater than a predetermined threshold.
19. The method of claim 17, wherein said level of similarity depends upon the degree of commonality between two documents as to non-keyword terms occurring in said predefined neighborhoods adjacent to the respective keywords within the respective documents of a pair of documents and which words each have a ratio of number of appearances in the document to number of appearances in the collection of documents that falls within a predetermined range.