33. The computer of claim 32, further comprising: computer readable code means for receiving a lexical distance, the lexical distance defining a number of document terms; computer readable code means for receiving a query including one or more query terms; and computer readable code means for determining a number of times at least one of the query terms is present in the first document within the lexical distance of the reference to the second document, for ranking the documents based thereon.
33. The computer of claim 32, further comprising: computer readable code means for receiving a lexical distance, the lexical distance defining a number of document terms; computer readable code means for receiving a query including one or more query terms; and computer readable code means for determining a number of times at least one of the query terms is present in the first document within the lexical distance of the reference to the second document, for ranking the documents based thereon. 34. The computer of claim 33, wherein the documents are accessible via a wide area computer network, and the reference includes a uniform resource listing (URL).