Significant change search alerts
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1. A computer-implemented method for sending search alert results, comprising:
- receiving a first query result from a first search engine, wherein the query result is obtained in response to a first query that comprises a first search value for locating resources;
forming a first digital signature of a first relevant portion of the resource identified by the first search query results, wherein the first relevant portion comprises content identified by the first search value;
receiving a second query result from a second search engine, wherein the query result is obtained in response to a second query that comprises the first search query, and wherein the second search engine is the same as or different from the first search engine;
forming a second digital signature of a second relevant portion of the resource identified by the second search query results, wherein the second relevant portion comprises content identified by the first search value; and
sending a notification to a user in response to a comparison of the first and second digital signatures being different.
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Abstract
An alert search mechanism is used with search engines such as a crawler to search for desired documents and/or resources. Particular documents are found by using search queries. The search mechanism track values of a set of relevant properties in queries. Whenever a document is searched for by the system, the values of these set of properties are matched with the old value. If there is no match, this is an indication that the document has changed.
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1. A computer-implemented method for sending search alert results, comprising:
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receiving a first query result from a first search engine, wherein the query result is obtained in response to a first query that comprises a first search value for locating resources;
forming a first digital signature of a first relevant portion of the resource identified by the first search query results, wherein the first relevant portion comprises content identified by the first search value;
receiving a second query result from a second search engine, wherein the query result is obtained in response to a second query that comprises the first search query, and wherein the second search engine is the same as or different from the first search engine;
forming a second digital signature of a second relevant portion of the resource identified by the second search query results, wherein the second relevant portion comprises content identified by the first search value; and
sending a notification to a user in response to a comparison of the first and second digital signatures being different. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for sending search alert results, comprising:
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a search alerts handler for storing and issuing alert queries that comprise search values for searching for documents;
a property store for storing property sets of properties of a search value from documents identified by an alert query; and
a gatherer for detecting when changes to the set of properties are made, wherein the gatherer detects the changes by comparing a first property set of properties of a search value in a document identified by a search value at a first time with a second property set of properties of the search value in the document identified by the search value at a second time, and wherein the gatherer notifies a user of the document associated with the detected changes. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A tangible medium comprising computer-executable instructions for:
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storing a property set of properties of a search value for a document identified by an alert query at a first and a second time, wherein the stored property sets are digital signatures of portions of the identified document that comprise the search value;
comparing the property set from the first time with the property set from the second time; and
sending a notification to a user in response to the property set from the first time being different from the property set from the second time. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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