1. A method of detecting duplicate documents, comprising: at a server having one or more processors and memory: receiving documents from one or more databases of documents, wherein each received document is associated with a respective query independent score; generating a document content identifier for each received document, each document content identifier comprising an identifier of a respective document's content; indexing at least a subset of the received documents to produce an document index that maps terms to documents in the one or more databases of documents; and while performing the indexing, identifying respective sets of received documents having the same content identifier, selecting a single document in each respective set of documents, in accordance with the query independent scores associated with the documents in the respective set of documents, as a representative document for the respective set of received documents, indexing the representative document, and with respect to each respective set of received documents, including only the representative document in the document index.
1. A method of detecting duplicate documents, comprising: at a server having one or more processors and memory: receiving documents from one or more databases of documents, wherein each received document is associated with a respective query independent score; generating a document content identifier for each received document, each document content identifier comprising an identifier of a respective document's content; indexing at least a subset of the received documents to produce an document index that maps terms to documents in the one or more databases of documents; and while performing the indexing, identifying respective sets of received documents having the same content identifier, selecting a single document in each respective set of documents, in accordance with the query independent scores associated with the documents in the respective set of documents, as a representative document for the respective set of received documents, indexing the representative document, and with respect to each respective set of received documents, including only the representative document in the document index. 5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the query independent score associated with a respective document indicates the respective document's importance or popularity.