22. An information gathering system for optimizing searching as in claim 1 wherein the updated classification system is used by the full text indexed search engine to process queries for business entities.
22. An information gathering system for optimizing searching as in claim 1 wherein the updated classification system is used by the full text indexed search engine to process queries for business entities. 23. An information gathering system for optimizing searching as in claim 22 wherein the query includes attributes matching one or more categories in the updated classification system, where one or more business entities is responsive to the query.