14. The system of claim 13 , wherein generating a representation of the network further comprises generating a network graph and storing the network graph into memory.
13. A system for ranking search results, the system comprising a computing device operating a search engine thereon, the search engine including computer-executable instructions, which when executed by the computing device cause the computing device to: record document and link information for documents on a network; generate a representation of the network from the document and link information, wherein the representation of the network includes nodes that represent the documents, the nodes including at least two high authority nodes and other nodes; assign to each high authority node a click distance value set by an administrator; set initial click distance values of the other nodes to a predetermined value; compute click distance values for the other nodes, the click distance values for each of the other nodes being a number of the links traversed on a shortest path to a closest of the high authority nodes; and rank search results using the click distance values of the high authority nodes and the other nodes as a query-independent relevance measure.