25. A system for presenting interesting characteristics associated with a collection of information, the system comprising: at least one processor operatively connected to a memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute system engines from the memory; a query engine configured to accept one or more queries against the collection of information and generate a result, wherein the result of each query includes a result set; a measurement engine configured to measure distinctiveness of one or more result sets based on a statistical distribution of at least one identifying characteristic associated with the contents of a result set; a normalization engine configured to normalize the measured distinctiveness of the one or more result sets to account for a size of a result set of the one or more results sets and a size of at least one other result set by determining an amount by which the measurement of distinctiveness exceeds a mean score for one or more result sets of a similar or identical size; and a user interface engine configured to display at least one characteristic of the one or more result sets and the measured distinctiveness of the one or more result sets.
25. A system for presenting interesting characteristics associated with a collection of information, the system comprising: at least one processor operatively connected to a memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute system engines from the memory; a query engine configured to accept one or more queries against the collection of information and generate a result, wherein the result of each query includes a result set; a measurement engine configured to measure distinctiveness of one or more result sets based on a statistical distribution of at least one identifying characteristic associated with the contents of a result set; a normalization engine configured to normalize the measured distinctiveness of the one or more result sets to account for a size of a result set of the one or more results sets and a size of at least one other result set by determining an amount by which the measurement of distinctiveness exceeds a mean score for one or more result sets of a similar or identical size; and a user interface engine configured to display at least one characteristic of the one or more result sets and the measured distinctiveness of the one or more result sets. 26. The system according to claim 25 , wherein the measurement engine is further configured to determine the distinctiveness of the contents of the one or more result sets.