1. In a computerized environment comprising a search propagation module and a search ranking module, a computerized method for searching one or more information sources and identifying and reporting characterized information, the method comprising: searching one or more data sources for a user-provided search target; receiving one or more data results from the search of the one or more data sources; classifying the one or more data results based upon the association of the user-provided search target with a derogatory attribute that is determined based upon the content within each of the one or more data results, wherein classifying the one or more data results comprises: accessing at a first memory location a first data structure that contains one or more first data structure search targets, wherein the first data structure is associated with a first weighting factor; determining a number of first data structure search targets that are within at least a portion of a particular data result; calculating a first ranking based upon the first weighting factor and the number of first data structure targets that are present within the at least the portion of the particular result; accessing at a second memory location a second data structure that contains one or more second data structure targets, wherein the second data structure is associated with a second weighting factor, which is a different than the first weighting factor; determining a number of second data structure search targets that are within at least a portion of the particular data result; calculating a second ranking based upon the second weighting factor and the number of second data structure targets that are present within the at least the portion of the particular result; and calculating the cumulative ranking of the particular data result based upon the first ranking and the second ranking; and displaying an indication of at least a portion of the classified one or more data results with an indication of a cumulative ranking for each of the one or more data results.