13. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, from one or more members of a member network that each have a member network profile comprising a geographic locale identifier, ratings of electronic articles that characterize the corresponding members' favorability assessments of the electronic articles; receiving, from a user who is not a member of the member network, a search query that comprises a target geographic locale; determining one or more electronic articles responsive to the search query; identifying one or more particular members of the member network that have profiles with geographic locale identifiers that correlate to the target geographic locale; identifying one or more rated electronic articles that have been rated by the particular members and that correspond to the one or more electronic articles; ranking the identified rated electronic articles using the particular members' received ratings of the corresponding electronic articles; and providing, for display to the user, references to each of the ranked electronic articles with text or indicia that represent the particular members' received ratings of the corresponding electronic articles.
13. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, from one or more members of a member network that each have a member network profile comprising a geographic locale identifier, ratings of electronic articles that characterize the corresponding members' favorability assessments of the electronic articles; receiving, from a user who is not a member of the member network, a search query that comprises a target geographic locale; determining one or more electronic articles responsive to the search query; identifying one or more particular members of the member network that have profiles with geographic locale identifiers that correlate to the target geographic locale; identifying one or more rated electronic articles that have been rated by the particular members and that correspond to the one or more electronic articles; ranking the identified rated electronic articles using the particular members' received ratings of the corresponding electronic articles; and providing, for display to the user, references to each of the ranked electronic articles with text or indicia that represent the particular members' received ratings of the corresponding electronic articles. 16. The method of claim 13 , further comprising providing, for at least one of the references to a ranked electronic articles, a selectable link arranged to provide a display comprising textual rating comments in response to a selection of the selectable link.