169 results about "Search engine query" patented technology

A method and system for automated intelligent electronic advertising. The method and system parse electronic information messages (e.g., e-mail messages, instant messages, etc.) for keywords and make search engine queries or database queries for electronic links based on the identified keywords. The electronic links returned from search engine queries or database queries are added to the electronic information messages creating a modified electronic information message. This allows additional electronic information to be accessed from the modified electronic information message based on information content of the original electronic information message.

A URL verification service is provided that is used to evaluate the trustworthiness of universal resource locators (URLs). As a user browses the world wide web, a URL verification client captures a URL associated with a web page of unknown authenticity. The URL verification client transmits the captured URL to a URL verification server. The URL verification server compares the URL to actively maintained whitelist and blacklist information. The server also uses the URL and a user-supplied or automatically-extracted brand to query a search engine. The URL verification server processes the response of the search engine to the search engine queries and the results of cache and whitelist and blacklist comparisons to determine whether the captured URL is legitimately associated with the brand. The results of the URL evaluation process are transmitted from the URL verification server to the URL verification client, which notifies user.

An embodiment of the current invention is directed to presenting a preview of search results for a suggested search. A search engine query is received. One or more search results are generated. One or more suggested, search terms are generated. A search engine results page is generated, including the one or more search results and the one or more suggested, search terms. An indication is received, indicating that a preview of search results related to a selected, suggested, search term is to be displayed. A preview window including a results section and a menu-bar section is generated. One or more search results related to the selected, suggested, search term are acquired. The one or more search results are presented in the preview window. The preview window allows interaction with the one or more search results.

A computer program product is provided as a business rating system to rank business that are relevant to a given Internet search topic. Business ratings are stored in a ranking repository that can be optionally searched by the user along with a user-defined search engine query. The business ratings are compiled from on-line questionnaires attached to the search engine results and/or on-line surveys obtained through other web based rating services. The business ratings assess the quality of the businesses in terms of “interactive” criteria such as customer satisfaction, professionalism, and cost and ease of use of the businesses' products or services. The business rating system is comprised of an on-line indexing engine, a query transformer, a search results transformer, a ranking based result sorter, an on-line ranking system, a metadata repository, and an on-line ranking repository. The business rating system integrates the ratings with the search results, and ranks the search results based on such business ratings. In this manner, the user of a search engine receives feedback from other users about businesses of interest. Eventually, businesses with higher ratings will be ranked at the top of the search list, while business with lower ratings will be ranked lower.

A method of caching the results of a search engine query divides a search engine cache into two parts, controlled and uncontrolled, and determines, through an admission policy, to which part the query results should be cached. In one implementation, the admission policy estimates whether a query is likely to be frequent or infrequent in the future by analyzing various features of the query.

A computer-implemented method includes calculating first statistics about a user-identified event within a first subset of a database of events; selecting a second subset of the database of events based on said first statistics; calculating second statistics about the user-identified event within the second subset of the database of events; merging the first and second statistics as statistics of the user-identified event within the entire database of events; and generating a result including at least a portion of the merged statistics of the user-identified event.

Embodiments provide a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for searching for information on a network of computers using a modified search query. The search query is modified using translation data. The translation data is any information having a predefined association with the search query content. In one aspect, the translation data comprises a location value and a demographic profile value. The location value, demographic profile value, and search content may include any number and types of characters, keywords, symbols, numerals, etc. Upon receiving a search query, a translation program takes step to locate any keywords within the search content, wherein the keywords indicate that translation data is available for modifying the search query. If the search content contains keywords, then steps are taken to modify the query. The modified query may then be executed by a search tool. In some embodiments, the search tool and the translating program are integrated.

A mechanism is provided for indexing commercials. A viewer may query a search engine for a particular product or service. The index may include descriptors that are provided within a blanking interval within the media stream or within program guide information associated with the stream. The index information may also include Internet hyperlinks. Commercials may also have associated therewith a value that is relative to a value of media content. A viewer may accumulate value by viewing advertisements. Accumulated value may then be used to acquire more content.

A search query for a search engine may be improved by incorporating alternate terms into the search query that are semantically similar to terms of the search query, taking into account information derived from the search query. An initial set of alternate terms that may be semantically similar to the original terms in the search query is generated. The initial set of alternate terms may be compared to information derived from the original search query. One example of such information is a set of documents retrieved in response to a search performed using the initial search query. One or more of the alternate terms may be added to the original search query based on their relationship to the information derived from the original search query.

Disclosed is a method and Declarative Web Application (DWA) for creating an abstraction layer between a web page and the complicated syntax required to access data to display on the web page. The abstraction layer is implemented with eXtensible Markup Language (XML) tags that permit a web page using simple, non-compiled custom XML tags embedded in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) formatting commands to call complex data storage and search engine queries using a simple, declaratory statement via a XML tag. Use of the simple, declaratory XML statement removes the need for any scripting or other complex code from the web page that may require compilation and/or extensive verification testing for changes to the web page code. The resulting web pages and query definitions are easier and less expensive to maintain and extend. Further, the data returned from the data storage system is formatted to be name and content addressable such that the HTML commands to display the data are implemented using a simple, declarative syntax of XML tags. Again, the use of simple, declarative XML tags allows the web page code to be restricted to simple HTML code, thus, avoiding the need to compile and/or perform extensive verification testing when a change is made to the HTML code. The system deskills the expertise necessary to create a data rich web page such that a graphic web designer is capable of creating a web page without the assistance of a Java or Structured Query Language (SQL) programmer. Also, the SQL programmer may create and then make queries available without the assistance of a programmer and without the need to use a programming language other than SQL.

In a networked system, a method and apparatus for measuring advertising effectiveness involves broadcasting an advertisement at a broadcast time, monitoring at least one social network or other online forum following the broadcast time, filtering social network traffic to identify messages, search engine queries to identify queries, or other traffic entries, that appear to be responsive to the broadcast advertisement, determining a time of initiation for at least a plurality of entries that appear to be responsive to the broadcast advertisement, and determining at least one demographic for at least the plurality of the entries that appear to be responsive to the broadcast advertisement.

The invention provides a search content providing method and a search engine. The search content providing method includes that the search engine acquires search data of a user; the search engine acquires a first associated word set and a second associated word set associated with preset keywords according to the search data; the search engine establishes association between first associated words in the first associated word set a nd second associated words in the second associated word set according to the search data and the preset keywords; when receiving a search request including the preset keywords, the search engine provides search content according to the association. By the search content providing method, the search content can be provided according to the association, more systematic and clearer search recommendations can be recommended to the user, convenience is brought to the user for accurately and quickly acquiring needed results, search requirements of the user can be met efficiently and accurately, and search experience of the user is good.

The invention provides a voice search method, which includes the steps: recognizing received voice search messages as text messages, and performing participle processing for the text messages; performing sentence pattern match and semantic analysis for the text messages subjected to participle processing, so as to obtain search engine keywords and search keywords; submitting the search keywords to a search engine corresponding to the search engine keywords for search; and informing a user of a search result received from the search engine. By the aid of the method, one-step search can be realized by the aid of simple voice commands, and search on an electronic commerce website with the search engine can be directly realized without using a specific search engine provided with a service provider.

A method, apparatus, software components to identify images (WebPages Thumbnails, web documents, etc.) relevant to search engine query results, for displaying on computerized devices. The disclosed invention combines systems for database file searching, indexing, analysis, re-indexing, retrieval, and distribution and reviewing. Although, the primary purpose of this invention is to be integrated with Internet Search Engines to assist users (searchers) in sorting through return from their search query, which often are unrelated and redundant information, the invention can be used with other database systems as well. Unlike traditional search engine systems, the invention described herein incorporates a search engine Query Results capture and Analysis component with an Imaging System, which matches query results to related images of WebPages. Then utilizing a Query component coupled with Image retrieval and delivery components, both the searches engine query results and related WebPages Images added to the query results page viewing.

While a user browses through a network, the present invention monitors and detects search queries. As a user enables queries to search for documents containing information necessary to the completion of a task, hobby, entertainment or to improve his or her general knowledge, the present invention detects that a query has been enabled and stores the query for later presentation to a user in an integrated browser list window. If a user wishes to share queries with other users in a global database, he or she must select a query string for sharing in an integrated browser list window. The query is stored locally and forwarded across a communication network to a hub processing unit for permanent storage in a global database accessible by a plurality of users. Also, the user can add annotations to the search query prior to its being forwarded to the hub processing unit. The hub processing unit in coordination with the global database organizes and manages the storage of selected shared query. Once stored in the global database, other users can benefit from the intelligence, work and experience of others by searching through categories of search queries as well as simply browsing through them. This is accomplished by a second user entering categorical data to his local graphical user interface which communicates with a search and retrieval program. The search and retrieval program returns a grouping or listing of headlines related to the category selected by the second user.

The likely relevance of each term of a search-engine query of two or more terms is determined by their deletion probability scores. If the deletion probability scores are significantly different, the deletion probability score can be used to return targeted ads related to the more relevant term or terms along with the search results. Deletion probability scores are determined by first gathering historical records of search queries of two or more terms in which a subsequent query was submitted by the same user after one or more of the terms had been deleted. The deletion probability score for a particular term of a search query is calculated as the ratio of the number of times that particular term was itself deleted prior to a subsequent search by the same user divided by the number of times there were subsequent search queries by the same user in which any term or terms including that given term was deleted by the same user prior to the subsequent search. Terms are not limited to individual alphabetic words.

Methods and apparatus are described for classifying documents using a document representation model based on implicit user feedback obtained from search engine queries. The model may be used to achieve better results in non-supervised tasks such as clustering and labeling through the incorporation of usage data obtained from the search engine queries.

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for modifying advertisements. A set of keywords is received from a user. A query is performed in a search engine with the set of keywords. A set of websites comprising ranked search results and ranked advertisements is displayed. Responsive to detecting a user input selecting a first website in the set of websites, modifying the ranked advertisements, based on the content of the first website, to form modified advertisements.

A method and system are provided for web search customization and web site rating. The system receives user input web sites, stores the web sites in a database, and groups them into user-specified categories. The system further allows users to select one or more web sites for customizing web search and querying the preselected sites using user input keywords. The system further provides the users with options to query a plurality of search engines. All web sites stored within the system are rated in response to the user operations. Each web site has at least a global rating indicating the rating within the system, a category rating indicating the rating within a given category, and a keyword rating indicating the rating for a given keyword. The system provides the users with a list of recommended web sites based on the web sites' ratings.