Search Engine for Presenting User-Editable Search Listings and Ranking Search Results Based on the Same
First Claim
1. A graphical user interface (GUI) generated by a client computing device in communication with a server computing device over a communications network, the GUI comprising:
- a first section including a text input field for a search query; and
a second section comprising a plurality of subsections, each subsection displaying at least one search result that is responsive to a search query,wherein each one of the subsections includes a hyperlink for accessing a text input field for a user-authored abstract, andwherein the text input field for the user-authored abstract can be accessed and displayed at each one of the subsections independently with respect to the first section and other subsections.
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Abstract
A search engine presents search results with user-editable abstracts and ranks search results based on the user-edited abstracts. A graphical user interface is provided to permit users to edit abstracts of search results. This enables owners of web sites and local businesses with local search listings to deliver abstracts of their products and services in their own words and improve the search ranking of their web sites or local search listings by observing abstract composing rules that are optimized to the relevance algorithm that is applied by the search engine.
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26 Claims
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1. A graphical user interface (GUI) generated by a client computing device in communication with a server computing device over a communications network, the GUI comprising:
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a first section including a text input field for a search query; and a second section comprising a plurality of subsections, each subsection displaying at least one search result that is responsive to a search query, wherein each one of the subsections includes a hyperlink for accessing a text input field for a user-authored abstract, and wherein the text input field for the user-authored abstract can be accessed and displayed at each one of the subsections independently with respect to the first section and other subsections. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A computer system comprising:
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a storage unit storing search results that are responsive to a search query, wherein at least one search result includes a user-defined abstract and the other search results include automatically generated abstracts; and a processor programmed to transmit the search results in response to receiving the search query. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of presenting an abstract to be displayed as a search result, comprising the steps of:
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receiving a user-defined abstract for a search listing; determining whether or not the user-defined abstract is to be associated with the search listing; storing the user-defined abstract for the search listing if the user-defined abstract is determined to be associated with the search listing; generating search results in response to a search query; and if the search results include the search listing, transmitting the user-defined abstract to be displayed as one of the search results. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of generating search results in response to a search query that includes a locality parameter, comprising the steps of:
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searching for records that satisfy the locality parameter; retrieving information about the records that satisfy the locality parameter; and displaying the retrieved information in a plurality of subsections, wherein each one of the subsections includes a hyperlink for accessing a text input field for editing the information that is displayed in said subsection. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method of generating search results in response to a search query that includes a locality parameter, comprising the steps of:
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searching for records that satisfy the locality parameter; retrieving information about the records that satisfy the locality parameter; and displaying the retrieved information in a plurality of subsections, wherein one of the records that satisfy the locality parameter includes a collection of records, and one of said subsections displays a graphic representing the collection of records and information about one of the records in said collection. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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