5. A process comprising: obtaining reputation ratings from the users of one or more social networks, at least some of the users being raters, at least some of the users being rated users, at least some of the users being both raters and rated users, each of the rated users being rated by one or more of the raters, wherein at least one of the users includes a first user who has rated the reputation of a second user and wherein said second user has rated the reputation of a third user, said one or more social networks being selected from a group that includes online social networks and offline social networks; receiving a data query from an entity; parsing said data query; identifying a subset of all the users within said one or more social networks comprising: determining said first user as a first segment of an agreement path, said determining depending on said parsing said data query, determining said second user as a second segment of said agreement path, said determining depending at least partly on said first user's reputation rating of said second user, determining said third user as a third segment of said agreement path, said determining depending at least partly on said second user's reputation rating of said third user; obtaining data items from at least some of the users in said subset of all the users within said one or more social networks; sorting said data items, said sorting depending on said identifying said subset of all the users within said one or more social network; returning to said entity a query response comprising said data items, said returning depending at least partly on said sorting.
5. A process comprising: obtaining reputation ratings from the users of one or more social networks, at least some of the users being raters, at least some of the users being rated users, at least some of the users being both raters and rated users, each of the rated users being rated by one or more of the raters, wherein at least one of the users includes a first user who has rated the reputation of a second user and wherein said second user has rated the reputation of a third user, said one or more social networks being selected from a group that includes online social networks and offline social networks; receiving a data query from an entity; parsing said data query; identifying a subset of all the users within said one or more social networks comprising: determining said first user as a first segment of an agreement path, said determining depending on said parsing said data query, determining said second user as a second segment of said agreement path, said determining depending at least partly on said first user's reputation rating of said second user, determining said third user as a third segment of said agreement path, said determining depending at least partly on said second user's reputation rating of said third user; obtaining data items from at least some of the users in said subset of all the users within said one or more social networks; sorting said data items, said sorting depending on said identifying said subset of all the users within said one or more social network; returning to said entity a query response comprising said data items, said returning depending at least partly on said sorting. 8. The method of claim 5 , wherein said obtaining reputation ratings comprises weighting each of the reputation ratings of the rated users with a weighting factor, said weighting factor depending at least in part on the reputation ratings of the raters that have rated the rated users.