11. A computer program product embedded in a computer readable storage medium for improving ranking results for a data crawl, comprising: program code for selecting an attribute to be used in adjusting the ranking results for a query; program code for running a query against at least one data source and generating a set of query results, each query result having a relevancy score relating to the query; program code for adjusting the relevancy scores of the query results based on the selected attribute; program code for returning the query results with the adjusted relevancy scores in response to the query; and program code for ordering the query results by integer number keys, wherein each key has a high segment of digits occupied by a relevancy score and a lower segment of digits occupied by a recency, such that the lower segment of digits is enabled as a score tie breaking factor.
11. A computer program product embedded in a computer readable storage medium for improving ranking results for a data crawl, comprising: program code for selecting an attribute to be used in adjusting the ranking results for a query; program code for running a query against at least one data source and generating a set of query results, each query result having a relevancy score relating to the query; program code for adjusting the relevancy scores of the query results based on the selected attribute; program code for returning the query results with the adjusted relevancy scores in response to the query; and program code for ordering the query results by integer number keys, wherein each key has a high segment of digits occupied by a relevancy score and a lower segment of digits occupied by a recency, such that the lower segment of digits is enabled as a score tie breaking factor. 18. A computer program product according to claim 11 , wherein each key has a low segment occupied by a sequence number.