Abstract: An integrated search and information discovery system is disclosed. The simultaneous and integrated access to a dynamic plurality of arbitrary search services and data stores is enabled, relieving users of such services and stores from the time-consuming task of accessing them individually or in otherwise inefficient manners. Further, a user-oriented derivative of the common webcrawling process is introduced and utilized to discover information not held in or indexed by the accessed search services and data stores using content and links delivered by those search services and data stores in response to an integrated user query. Finally, a modular information analysis framework is utilized to allow for the use of a plurality of information analysis methods depending on the needs of a user.