10. The method of claim 1 further comprising: searching the library of annotations to identify one or more additional annotated hits, wherein each additional annotated hit corresponds to a document from the corpus for which the associated annotation includes user-specific metadata that is determined to be relevant to the query; and incorporating the additional annotated hits into the listing of the hits in the search results page.
10. The method of claim 1 further comprising: searching the library of annotations to identify one or more additional annotated hits, wherein each additional annotated hit corresponds to a document from the corpus for which the associated annotation includes user-specific metadata that is determined to be relevant to the query; and incorporating the additional annotated hits into the listing of the hits in the search results page. 11. The method of claim 10 wherein searching the corpus includes: extracting a search term from the user query; and identifying as a hit each document in the corpus that contains the search term.