Site finding

• US 20070266306A1
• Filed: 07/23/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Assets 186 LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Egocentricity Ltd.
• Inventors: Koppel, Moshe, Lanxner, Eyal
• Application Number:
  US11/878,254
• Publication Number:
  US 20070266306A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A method of finding WWW pages, each of which includes at least one list of links to desired Internet resources, comprising: providing a list of URLs; automatically generating at least one query for an Internet search tool for WWW pages that include links to at least one URL of said list of URLs; executing said at least one generated query to provide search results that include at least one of said searched for WWW pages; and generating a response comprising at least one indication of one of said WWW pages, responsive to said search results.

Claims

1. A method of finding WWW pages, each of which includes at least one list of links to desired Internet resources, comprising:

providing a list of URLs;

automatically generating at least one query for an Internet search tool for WWW pages that include links to at least one URL of said list of URLs;

executing said at least one generated query to provide search results that include at least one of said searched for WWW pages;

generating a response comprising at least one indication of one of said WWW pages, responsive to said search results;

wherein said response comprises a list of links listed in at least one of said WWW pages; and

wherein said list indicates pages not including a link to any URL in a predetermined list of URLs.

2. A method according to claim 1, comprising displaying said response to a user.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said at least one URL comprises a plurality of URLs.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said response is generated using a single search step and no iterations.

5. A method according to claim 1, comprising ranking said search results.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein ranking of a WWW page is responsive to a number of groups of URLs pointed to by said WWW page.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein said generating at least one search query, comprises:

dividing said list of URLs into a plurality of groups and generating at least a single query for each group, wherein said at least a single query does not differentiate which URL in said group is pointed to by the results of the search,

wherein said executing comprises executing said generated at least one query for a plurality of said groups, generating a plurality of result lists.

10. A method according to claim 7, comprising:

collating said result lists into a single list of search results.

11. A method according to claim 10, comprising ranking the contents of at least one of said result lists.

12. A method according to claim 11, wherein said collating is responsive to said ranking of said at least one of said result lists.

13. A method according to claim 11, wherein said ranking is applied to said result list after it is generated.

14. A method according to claim 13, comprising filtering said at least one result list responsive to said ranking.

15. A method according to claim 11, wherein said ranking is applied to said result list during said execution.

16. A method according to claim 15, wherein said ranking is applied by adding at least one limitation to said at least one generated search query.

17. A method according to claim 11, wherein said ranking comprises ranking responsive to a number of said URLs pointed to by said result list.

18. A method according to claim 11, wherein said ranking comprises ranking responsive to a morphological property of pages of said at least one result list.

19. A method according to claim 18, wherein said morphological property comprises the existence of a link list.

20. A method according to claim 11, wherein said ranking indicates a probability of a ranked page being a hub.

8. A method of finding WWW pages, each of which includes at least one list of links to desired Internet resources, comprising:

providing a list of URLs;

automatically generating at least one search query for an Internet search tool for WWW pages that include links to at least one URL of said list of URLs;

executing said at least one generated query to provide search results that include at least one of said searched for WWW pages;

generating a response comprising at least one indication of one of said WWW pages, responsive to said search results;

wherein said generating at least one search query, comprises;

dividing said list of URLs into a plurality of groups and generating at least a single query for each group, wherein said at least a single query does not differentiate which URL in said group is pointed to by the results of the search,

wherein said executing comprises executing said generated at least one query for a plurality of said groups, generating a plurality of result lists; and

wherein all of said groups have a same number of members.

9. A method of finding WWW pages, each of which includes at least one list of links to desired Internet resources, comprising:

providing a list of URLs;

automatically generating at least one search query for an Internet search tool for WWW pages that include links to at least one URL of said list of URLs;

executing said at least one generated query to provide search results that include at least one of said searched for WWW pages;

generating a response comprising at least one indication of one of said WWW pages, responsive to said search results;

wherein said generating at least one search query, comprises;

dividing said list of URLs into a plurality of groups and generating at least a single query for each group, wherein said at least a single query does not differentiate which URL in said group is pointed to by the results of the search,

wherein said executing comprises executing said generated at least one query for a plurality of said groups, generating a plurality of result lists; and

wherein at least three of said groups have a different number of members from each other.