Abstract: This invention addresses the problems of current search techniques on the Internet—volume, ranking, difficulty to assess—and extends the solution to all kinds of electronic information accessible through networks and databases. The solution principle engages the help of specialists in particular domains and supplies them with tools to effectively scour the information resources for high quality information in their field, to commit that knowledge to distributed databases, to construct dedicated knowledge environments, and to submit corresponding context information to centralized registries. End users implicitly access mirrored services of these registries and use the context information to focus their searches onto the resources qualified by the expert network.