Abstract: An automated system and method for creating a topical data structure of documents or other items from an inter-linked system of documents, such as the Web and/or the Internet. The data structure can then be searched using conventional means information to generate highly relevant results. The system automatically utilizes pre-existing search resources to discover and collect topically relevant information from the inter-linked system of documents, which can be added to the topical data structure. The topically relevant information collected using the pre-existing search resources can be directly added to the data structure or can be further filtered for relevancy before being added to the data structure.