1. A system, comprising: a citation search engine including a processor, which in operation, retrieves a plurality of citations each composed by one of a plurality of subjects citing one or more of a plurality of objects that fit searching criteria, wherein a citation is an online posting of an opinion of an object by a subject; an object selection engine coupled to the citation search engine and including a processor, which in operation, identifies one or more attributes associated with the citations, determines a selection and ranking of objects cited by the citations, uses one or more attributes as a filter to select objects, identified attributes being transferred from one entity to other search entities, the transferred attributes facilitating a selection and ranking of cited targets for a search result, transfers the identified attributes from the citations where the attributes are available to the one or more objects, and selects the objects as a search result based on the matching of the search criteria with the attributes transferred to the objects from the citations; and an influence evaluation engine that calculates influence scores of entities that determine a ranking of any subset of objects obtained from the plurality of citations, and the influence evaluation engine, which in operation, calculates influence scores of the plurality of subjects that compose the plurality of citations citing the plurality of objects, wherein the citation search engine enables a citation centric search process that focuses on influence of the plurality subjects that cite the plurality of objects.
1. A system, comprising: a citation search engine including a processor, which in operation, retrieves a plurality of citations each composed by one of a plurality of subjects citing one or more of a plurality of objects that fit searching criteria, wherein a citation is an online posting of an opinion of an object by a subject; an object selection engine coupled to the citation search engine and including a processor, which in operation, identifies one or more attributes associated with the citations, determines a selection and ranking of objects cited by the citations, uses one or more attributes as a filter to select objects, identified attributes being transferred from one entity to other search entities, the transferred attributes facilitating a selection and ranking of cited targets for a search result, transfers the identified attributes from the citations where the attributes are available to the one or more objects, and selects the objects as a search result based on the matching of the search criteria with the attributes transferred to the objects from the citations; and an influence evaluation engine that calculates influence scores of entities that determine a ranking of any subset of objects obtained from the plurality of citations, and the influence evaluation engine, which in operation, calculates influence scores of the plurality of subjects that compose the plurality of citations citing the plurality of objects, wherein the citation search engine enables a citation centric search process that focuses on influence of the plurality subjects that cite the plurality of objects. 3. The system of claim 1 , wherein: each of the plurality of subjects is one of: representation of a person, web log, and entities representing Internet authors or users of social media services, user of microblogging services, users of social networks, reviewer who provides expressions of opinion, reviews, or other information useful for the estimation of influence.