METHODS AND APPARATUS PROVIDING LOCAL SEARCH ENGINE

• US 20070288437A1
• Filed: 06/11/2007
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Local.com
• Original Assignee: Local.com Corporation (Local.com)
• Inventors: Xia, Xiongwu
• Granted Patent: US 7,822,705 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99937 Sorting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A local search engine geographically indexes information for searching by identifying a geocoded web page of a web site and identifying at least one geocodable web page of the web site. The system identifies a geocode contained within content of the geocoded web page of the web site. The geocode indicates a physical location of an entity associated with the web site. The system indexes content of the geocoded web page and content of the geocodable web page. The indexing including associating the geocode contained within content of the geocoded web page to the indexed content of the geocoded web page and the geocodable web page to allow geographical searching of the content of the web pages.

Claims

1. A method for geographically indexing information, the method comprising:

identifying a geocoded web page of a web site;

identifying at least one geocodable web page of the web site;

identifying a geocode contained within content of the geocoded web page of the web site, the geocode indicating a physical location of an entity associated with the web site;

indexing content of the geocoded web page and content of the at least one geocodable web page, the indexing including associating the geocode contained within content of the geocoded web page to the indexed content of the geocoded web page to determine a geographic location of the web page when searched b a browser.