SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND MAINTAINING PRODUCT OR SERVICE INFORMATION

• US 20100094865A1
• Filed: 11/14/2008
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joerg Habermeier, Mark D. Kvamme, Michael R. Haswell, Randy Adams
• Original Assignee: Joerg Habermeier, Mark D. Kvamme, Michael R. Haswell, Randy Adams
• Inventors: Habermeier, Joerg, Adams, Randy, Haswell, Michael R., Kvamme, Mark D.
• Application Number:
  US12/271,669
• Publication Number:
  US 20100094865A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

Computer-executed methods, systems, and media provide a first webpage, responsive to a user request, prompting for a query. A search for products or services that match the query yields a search results schema, comprising a hit description for the results of the search. A plurality of result details layout schemas, each corresponding to a search result, is also obtained. The search results schema specifies a location of each result details layout schema. A second web page encoding a first and second representation is created. The first representation is for a first search result and is centered in the second web page. The second representation is of a second search result and is positioned in an off-center position in a manner that is rotated about a first axis of rotation. The first and second representations are respectively specified by first and second result details layout schemas.

Claims

1. A computer-executed method comprising:

(A) receiving a query for a first web page;

(B) providing said first web page in response to said query to a first remote computer, wherein said first web page includes instructions for prompting a user for a product or service query;

(C) receiving a product or service query responsive to said providing (B);

(D) searching for one or more products or one or more services in a database that matches said product or service query thereby obtaining a plurality of search results;

(E) generating or retrieving a search results schema for said plurality of search results, wherein the search results schema comprises a hit description for all or a portion of the search results in said plurality of search results;

(F) generating or retrieving a plurality of result details layout schemas, wherein each result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas corresponds to a search result in said plurality of search results, and wherein the search results schema specifies a location for each result details layout schema in all or the portion of the plurality of result details layout schemas; and

(G) creating a second web page, wherein said second web page comprises instructions for encoding a first representation of a first search result in said plurality of search results wherein the first representation is specified, in part, by the search results schema and, in part, by a first result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

2. The computer-executed method of claim 1, wherein the second web page further comprises:

instructions for encoding said first representation in a first position of said second web page, and

instructions for encoding a second representation of a second search result in said plurality of search results in a second position of said second web page, wherein the second representation is specified, in part, by the search results schema and, in part, by a second result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

3. The computer-executed method of claim 2, wherein

the first position is a center position of said second web page,

the second position is a first off-center position of said second web page, and

the second representation is rotated about a first axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the first off-center position of the second web page.

4. The computer-executed method of claim 1, wherein the search results schema comprises a description of a first search result in said plurality of search results, a title of the first search result, and a URL that a user will be directed to when the user selects the first search result.

5. The computer-executed method of claim 1, wherein the first result details layout schema comprises a size and a background color of said first representation.

6. The computer-executed method of claim 1, wherein the first result details layout schema comprises:

text describing the first search result and a position that the text is to be placed in the first representation or

an image describing the first search result and a position that the image is to be placed in the first representation.

7. The computer-executed method of claim 2, wherein said second web page further comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the second representation in the first off-center position, for:

shifting the first representation to a second off-center position of said second web page thereby causing the first representation to be displayed at the second off-center position rotated about a second axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the second off-center position of the second web page;

shifting the second representation to the center position of the second web page, thereby causing the second representation to be displayed at the center position in a manner that is no longer rotated about the first axis of rotation; and

displaying a third representation of a third search result in said plurality of search results in said first off-center position of said second web page, wherein the third representation is rotated about said first axis of rotation and wherein the third representation is specified, in part, by the search results schema and, in part, by a third result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

8. The computer-executed method of claim 7 wherein, responsive to a selection of the first representation in the second off-center position, said second web page further comprises instructions for:

shifting the first representation from the second off-center position to the center position of the second web page thereby causing the first representation to be displayed at the center position in a manner that is no longer rotated about the second axis of rotation; and

shifting the second representation from the center position to the first off-center position thereby causing the second representation to be displayed at the first off-center position in a manner that is rotated about the first axis of rotation.

9. The computer-executed method of claim 1, wherein the second web page further comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the first representation, for linking to a URL specified by code corresponding to the first search result in the search results schema.

10. The computer-executed method of claim 1, wherein the second web page further comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the first representation, for displaying a description of said first search result, a title of the first search result, and a URL that contains more information about the first search result.

11. The computer-executed method of claim 2, wherein the second web page further comprises instructions for providing a toggle bar with the second web page so that,

when a search requester pulls the toggle bar in a first direction, a representation of a search result in the plurality of search results shifts from the first off-center position to the center position, and from the center position to a second off-center position responsive to the pull in the first direction;

and

when a search requester pulls the toggle bar in a second direction, a representation of a search result in the first plurality of search results shifts from the second off-center position to the center position, and from the center position to the first off-center position responsive to the pull in the second direction.

12. The computer-executed method of claim 1, the computer-executed method further comprising:

(H) receiving a selection of (i) a selected search result in said plurality of search results and (ii) an identification of an album stored on a second remote computer, wherein the album comprises a plurality of records, each record comprising an address of a document or a data structure; and

(I) performing, responsive to the receiving (H), a computer-executed method comprising;

(i) obtaining a location of an image for the selected search result from the hit description for the selected search result in the search results schema, and

(ii) adding a record to the album stored on the second remote computer, wherein the record comprises the location of the image.

13. The computer-executed method of claim 12, the method further comprising:

(J) receiving a request to review the album; and

(K) creating, responsive to the receiving (J), a third web page, wherein said third web page comprises instructions for;

encoding a first image of a first document or a first data structure addressed by a first record in the plurality of records in the album in a center position of said third web page, and

encoding a second image of a second document or a second data structure addressed by a second record in the plurality of records in a second position of said third web page relative to the first image

14. The computer-executed method of claim 13, wherein the second image is rotated about a first axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the first off-center position of the third web page.

15. The computer-executed method of claim 13, wherein the first image or the second image is the image for the selected search added to the album by the performing (I).

16. The computer-executed method of claim 13, wherein the first image is the image for the selected search added to the album by the performing (I) and wherein the first image is modified between

(i) a time when the location of the image for the selected search result is added to a record in the album by the performing (I), and

(ii) a time when the creating (K) encodes the first image.

17. The computer-executed method of claim 13, wherein the first image is modified between

(i) a time when the location of the image for the selected search result is added to a record in the album by the performing (I), and

(ii) a time when the creating (K) encodes the first image in order to include an updated price or availability for a product or a service.

18. The computer-executed method of claim 13, wherein

a record in the plurality of records is a link is to a static graphic representation stored in a document repository in a remote location,

the static graphic representation is a static graphic representation of a document retrieved from the Internet at a time before the receiving (A).

19. The computer-executed method of claim 12, the computer-executed method further comprising:

(J) receiving a request to share the album with a party associated with a third remote computer, and

(K) performing, responsive to the request, a computer-executed method comprising;

(i) forming a link to the album stored in the remote location, and

(ii) causing an invitation to view the album to be sent to the third remote computer, wherein the invitation comprises the link.

20. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising instructions for performing the computer-executed method of claim 1.

21. A computer, comprising:

a main memory;

one or more processors; and

one or more programs, stored in the main memory and executed by the one or more processors, the programs collecting including instructions for performing the computer-executed method of claim 1.

22. A computer-executed method comprising:

(A) sending a query for a first web page using an Internet browser;

(B) displaying a first web page received from a first remote computer in response to said query, wherein said first web page includes instructions for prompting a user for a product or service query;

(C) sending, responsive to said displaying (B), a product or service query; and

(D) displaying a second web page using an information construct, wherein

the information construct comprises a search results schema or is derived from the search results schema,

the search results schema comprises a hit description for each search result in a plurality of search results for the product or service query, and

a hit description in the search results schema specifies a location of a result details layout schema in a plurality of result details layout schemas, and wherein said second web page comprises instructions for

encoding a first representation of a first search result in said plurality of search results, wherein the first representation is specified, in part, by the search results schema and, in part, by a first result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

23. The computer-executed method of claim 22, wherein the second web page further comprises:

instructions for encoding said first representation in a first position of said second web page, and

instructions for encoding a second representation of a second search result in said plurality of search results in a second position of said second web page, wherein the second representation is specified, in part, by the search results schema and, in part, by a second result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

24. The computer-executed method of claim 23, wherein

the first position is a center position of said second web page,

the second position is a first off-center position of said second web page, and

the second representation is rotated about a first axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the first off-center position of the second web page.

25. The computer-executed method of claim 22, wherein the search results schema comprises a description of a first search result in said plurality of search results, a title of the first search result, and a URL that a user will be directed to when the user selects the first search result.

26. The computer-executed method of claim 22, wherein the first result details layout schema comprises a size and a background color of said first representation.

27. The computer-executed method of claim 22, wherein the first result details layout schema comprises:

text describing the first search result and a position that the text is to be placed in the first representation, or

an image describing the first search result and a position that the image is to be placed in the first representation.

28. The computer-executed method of claim 23, wherein said second web page comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the second representation in the first off-center position, for:

shifting the first representation to a second off-center position of said second web page thereby causing the first representation to be displayed at the second off-center position rotated about a second axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the second off-center position of the second web page;

shifting the second representation to the center position of the second web page, thereby causing the second representation to be displayed at the center position in a manner that is no longer rotated about the first axis of rotation; and

displaying a third representation of a third search result in said plurality of search results in said first off-center position of said second web page, wherein the third representation is rotated about said first axis of rotation and wherein the third representation is specified by the search results schema and a third result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

29. The computer-executed method of claim 28, responsive to a selection of the first representation in the second off-center position, the second web page further comprising instructions for:

shifting the first representation to the center position of the second web page thereby causing the first representation to be displayed at the center position in a manner that is no longer rotated about the second axis of rotation; and

shifting the second representation to the first off-center position thereby causing the second representation to be displayed at the first off-center position in a manner that is rotated about the first axis of rotation.

30. The computer-executed method of claim 23, wherein the second web page further comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the first representation, for linking to a URL specified by code corresponding to the first search result in the search results schema.

31. The computer-executed method of claim 23, wherein the second web page further comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the first representation, for displaying a description of said first search result, a title of the first search result, and a URL that contains more information about the first search result.

32. The computer-executed method of claim 23, wherein the second web page further comprises instructions for providing a toggle bar in the second web page so that,

when a search requester pulls the toggle bar in a first direction, a representation of a search result in the plurality of search results shifts from the first off-center position to the center position, and from the center position to a second off-center position responsive to the pull in the first direction;

and

when a search requester pulls the toggle bar in a second direction, a representation of a search result in the first plurality of search results shifts from the second off-center position to the center position, and from the center position to the first off-center position responsive to the pull in the second direction.

33. The computer-executed method of claim 22, the computer-executed method further comprising:

(E) receiving a selection of (i) a selected search result in said plurality of search results displayed on the second web page and (ii) an identification of an album, wherein the album comprises a plurality of records, each record comprising an address of a document or a data structure; and

(F) performing, responsive to the receiving (E), a computer-executed method comprising;

(i) obtaining a location of an image for the selected search result from the hit description for the selected search result in the search results schema; and

(ii) adding a record to the album stored, wherein the record comprises the location of the image.

34. The computer-executed method of claim 33, wherein a record in the plurality of records is stored on a remote computer and the receiving (E) comprises obtaining the record from the remote computer.

35. The computer-executed method of claim 33, the computer-executed method further comprising:

(G) receiving a request to review the album; and

(H) dynamically creating, responsive to the receiving (G), a third web page, wherein said third web page comprises instructions for

encoding a first image of a first document or a first data structure addressed by a first record in the plurality of records in the album in a first position of said third web page, and

encoding a second image of a second document or a second data structure addressed by a second record in the plurality of records in a second position of said third web page.

36. The computer-executed method of claim 35, wherein the second image is rotated about a first axis of rotation that lies between the first position and the second position of the third web page.

37. The computer-executed method of claim 35, wherein the first image or the second image is the image for the selected search result added to the album by the performing (F).

38. The computer-executed method of claim 35, wherein the first image is the image for the selected search added to the album by the performing (F) and wherein the first image is modified between

(i) a time when the location of the image for the selected search result is added to a record in the album by the performing (F), and

(ii) a time when the dynamically creating (H) encodes the first image into said third web page.

39. The computer-executed method of claim 35, wherein the first image is the image for the selected search added to the album by the performing (F) and wherein the first image is modified between

(i) a time when the location of the image for the selected search result is added to a record in the album by the performing (F), and

(ii) a time when the dynamically creating (H) encodes the first image in order to include an updated price or availability for a product or a service.

40. The computer-executed method of claim 33, wherein a record in the plurality of records is a link is to a static graphic representation stored in a document repository in a remote location, wherein the static graphic representation is a static graphic representation of a document retrieved from the Internet at a time before the sending (A).

41. The computer-executed method of claim 33, the computer-executed method further comprising:

(G) receiving a request to share the album with a party associated with a remote computer; and

(H) performing, responsive to the request, a computer-executed method comprising;

(i) forming a link to the album stored in the remote location; and

(ii) causing an invitation to view the album to be sent to the remote computer, wherein the invitation comprises the link.

42. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising instructions for performing the computer-executed method of claim 22.

43. A computer, comprising:

a main memory;

one or more processors; and

one or more programs, stored in the main memory and executed by the one or more processors, the programs collecting including instructions for performing the computer-executed method of claim 22.

44. A computer-executed method of displaying information comprising:

(A) obtaining, responsive to a user query, an album from a remote computer, wherein

the album comprises a plurality of links to a plurality of Internet-accessible documents, each link in the plurality of links specifying a location of an Internet-accessible document in the plurality of Internet-accessible documents,

a first link in the plurality of links is a link to a first static graphic representation stored in a document repository in a remote location, wherein the first static graphic representation is of a document retrieved from the Internet at a time before the obtaining (A), and

a second link in the plurality of links is a link to a location of a first image for a selected search result from a hit description for the selected search result in a search results schema;

(B) retrieving, responsive to said user query, all or a portion of the plurality of Internet-accessible documents in the plurality of Internet-accessible documents over the Internet including the first static graphic representation and the first image; and

(C) displaying all or a portion of the plurality of Internet-accessible documents in the plurality of Internet-accessible documents on a graphic output device.

45. The computer-executed method of claim 44, wherein the displaying (C) further comprises displaying all or a portion of the plurality of Internet-accessible documents in an order specified by the album.

46. The computer-executed method of claim 44, wherein the displaying (C) further comprises:

displaying a first representation of a first document in the plurality of Internet-accessible documents at a center position of the graphic output device, and

displaying a second representation of a second document in the plurality of Internet-accessible documents at an off-center position of the graphic output device, wherein the second representation is displayed rotated about a first axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the off-center position of the graphic output device.

47. The computer-executed method of claim 46, the method further comprising receiving user input shifting the second representation to the center position of the graphic output device.

48. The computer-executed method of claim 44, wherein the displaying (C) further comprises displaying a live version of a web page corresponding to the first representation, responsive to a user selection of the first representation.

49. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising instructions for performing the computer-executed method of claim 44.

50. A computer, comprising:

a main memory;

one or more processors; and

one or more programs, stored in the main memory and executed by the one or more processors, the programs collecting including instructions for performing the computer-executed method of claim 44.

51. A computer-executed method comprising:

(A) receiving a query for product or service information;

(B) generating or retrieving a search results schema for a plurality of products or services that match said query, wherein the search results schema comprises a hit description for all or a portion of the products or services in said plurality of plurality of products or services;

(C) generating or retrieving a plurality of result details layout schemas, wherein each result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas corresponds to a product or service in said plurality of products or services, and wherein the search results schema specifies a location for each result details layout schema in all or a portion of the plurality of result details layout schemas; and

(D) creating a first web page, wherein said first web page comprises instructions for encoding a first representation of a first product or service in said plurality of products or services in a first position said first web page, wherein the first representation is specified, in part, by the search results schema and, in part, by a first result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

52. The computer-executed method of claim 51, wherein the first position is a center position of the first web page and wherein the first web page further comprises instructions for:

encoding a second representation of a second product or service in said plurality of products or services in a first off-center position of said second web page relative to the first representation, wherein the second representation is rotated about a first axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the first off-center position of the first web page and wherein the second representation is specified by the search results schema and a second result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

53. The computer-executed method of claim 51, wherein the search results schema comprises a description of a first product or service in said plurality of products or services, a title of the product or service, and a URL that a user will be directed to when the user selects the first product or service.

54. The computer-executed method of claim 51, wherein the first result details layout schema comprises a size and a background color of said first representation.

55. The computer-executed method of claim 51, wherein the first result details layout schema comprises:

text describing the first product or service and a position that the text is to be placed in the first representation or

an image describing the first product or service and a position that the image is to be placed in the first representation.

56. The computer-executed method of claim 52, wherein said first web page comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the second representation in the first off-center position, for:

shifting the first representation to a second off-center position of said first web page thereby causing the first representation to be displayed at the second off-center position rotated about a second axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the second off-center position of the first web page;

shifting the second representation to the center position of the first web page, thereby causing the second representation to be displayed at the center position in a manner that is no longer rotated about the first axis of rotation; and

displaying a third representation of a third product or service in said plurality of products or service in said first off-center position of said first web page, wherein the third representation is rotated about said first axis of rotation and wherein the third representation is specified by the search results schema and a third result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

57. The computer-executed method of claim 56 wherein, responsive to a selection of the first representation in the second off-center position, the computer-executed method further comprises:

shifting the first representation to the center position of the first web page thereby causing the first representation to be displayed at the center position in a manner that is no longer rotated about the second axis of rotation; and

shifting the second representation to the first off-center position thereby causing the second representation to be displayed at the first off-center position in a manner that is rotated about the first axis of rotation.

58. The computer-executed method of claim 51, wherein the first web page further comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the first representation, for linking to a URL specified by code corresponding to the first search result in the search results schema.

59. The computer-executed method of claim 51, wherein the first web page further comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the first representation, for displaying a description of said first product or service, a title of the first product or service, and a URL that contains more information about the first product or service.

60. The computer-executed method of claim 52, wherein the first web page further comprises instructions for providing a toggle bar with the second web page so that,

when a search requester pulls the toggle bar in a first direction, a representation of a search result in the plurality of search results shifts from the first off-center position to the center position, and from the center position to a second off-center position responsive to the pull in the first direction;

and

when the search requester pulls the toggle bar in a second direction, a representation of a search result in the first plurality of search results shifts from the second off-center position to the center position, and from the center position to the first off-center position responsive to the pull in the second direction.

61. The computer-executed method of claim 51, the computer-executed method further comprising:

(E) receiving a selection of (i) a selected product or service in said plurality of products or services and (ii) an identification of an album, wherein the album comprises a plurality of records, each record comprising an address of a document or a data structure; and

(F) performing, responsive to the receiving (E), a computer-executed method comprising;

(i) obtaining a location of an image for the selected search result from the hit description for the selected search result in the search results schema; and

(ii) adding a record to the album, wherein the record comprises the location of the image.

62. The computer-executed method of claim 61, the method further comprising:

(G) receiving a request to review the album; and

(H) creating, responsive to the receiving (G), a second web page, wherein said second web page comprises instructions for;

encoding a first image of a first document or a first data structure addressed by a first record in the plurality of records in the album in a center position of said second web page, and

encoding a second image of a second document or a second data structure addressed by a second record in the plurality of records in a first off-center position of said second web page relative to the first image, wherein the second image is rotated about a first axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the first off-center position of the second web page.

63. The computer-executed method of claim 62, wherein the first image or the second image is the image for the selected search added to the album by the performing (F).

64. The computer-executed method of claim 62, wherein the first image is the image for the selected search added to the album by the performing (F) and wherein the first image is modified between

(i) a time when the location of the image for the selected search result is added to a record in the album by the performing (F), and

(ii) a time when the creating (H) encodes the first image.

65. The computer-executed method of claim 64, wherein the first image is modified between (i) a time when the location of the image for the selected search result is added to a record in the album by the performing (F) and (ii) a time when the creating (H) encodes the first image in order to include an updated price or availability for a product or a service.

66. The computer-executed method of claim 61, wherein a record in the plurality of records is a link is to a static graphic representation stored in a document repository in a remote location, wherein the static graphic representation is a static graphic representation of a document retrieved from the Internet at a time before the receiving (A).

67. The computer-executed method of claim 61, the computer-executed method further comprising:

(G) receiving a request to share the album with a party associated with a remote computer; and

(H) performing, responsive to the request, a computer-executed method comprising;

(i) forming a link to the album stored in a remote location; and

(ii) causing an invitation to view the album to be sent to the remote computer, wherein the invitation comprises the link.

68. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising instructions for performing the computer-executed method of claim 51.

69. A computer, comprising:

a main memory;

one or more processors; and

one or more programs, stored in the main memory and executed by the one or more processors, the programs collecting including instructions for performing the computer-executed method of claim 51.

70. A computer-executed method comprising:

(A) sending a product or service query; and

(B) displaying a first web page using an information construct, wherein

the information construct comprises a search results schema or is derived from the search results schema,

the search results schema comprises a hit description for each product or service in a plurality of products or services that match the product or service query, and

a hit description in the search results schema specifies a location of a result details layout schema in a plurality of result details layout schemas, and wherein said first web page comprises instructions for

encoding a first representation of a first search result in said plurality of search results in a first position in said first web page, wherein the first representation is specified, in part, by the search results schema and, in part, by a first result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

71. The computer-executed method of claim 70, wherein the first position is a center position in the first web page and wherein the first web page further comprises instructions for:

encoding a second representation of a second search result in said plurality of search results in a first off-center position of said first web page relative to the first representation, wherein the second representation is rotated about a first axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the first off-center position of the first web page and wherein the second representation is specified, in part, by the search results schema and, in part, by a second result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

72. The computer-executed method of claim 70, wherein the search results schema comprises a description of a first product or service in said plurality of products or services, a title of the first product or service, and a URL that a user will be directed to when the user selects the first product or service.

73. The computer-executed method of claim 70, wherein the first result details layout schema comprises a size and a background color of said first representation.

74. The computer-executed method of claim 70, wherein the first result details layout schema comprises:

text describing the first product or service and a position that the text is to be placed in the first representation, or

an image describing the first product or service and a position that the image is to be placed in the first representation.

75. The computer-executed method of claim 70, wherein said first web page comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the second representation in the first off-center position, for:

shifting the first representation to a second off-center position of said first web page thereby causing the first representation to be displayed at the second off-center position rotated about a second axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the second off-center position of the first web page;

shifting the second representation to the center position of the first web page, thereby causing the second representation to be displayed at the center position in a manner that is no longer rotated about the first axis of rotation; and

displaying a third representation of a third product or service in said plurality of products or services in said first off-center position of said first web page, wherein the third representation is rotated about said first axis of rotation and wherein the third representation is specified by the search results schema and a third result details layout schema in said plurality of result details layout schemas.

76. The computer-executed method of claim 75, responsive to a selection of the first representation in the second off-center position, the first web pager further comprises instructions for:

shifting the first representation to the center position of the first web page thereby causing the first representation to be displayed at the center position in a manner that is no longer rotated about the second axis of rotation; and

shifting the second representation to the first off-center position thereby causing the second representation to be displayed at the first off-center position in a manner that is rotated about the first axis of rotation.

77. The computer-executed method of claim 70, wherein the first web page further comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the first representation, for linking to a URL specified by code corresponding to the first product or service in the search results schema.

78. The computer-executed method of claim 70, wherein the first web page further comprises instructions, responsive to a selection of the first representation, for displaying a description of said first product or service, a title of the first product or service, and a URL that contains more information about the first product or service.

79. The computer-executed method of claim 71, wherein the first web page further comprises instructions for providing a toggle bar in the first web page so that,

when a search requester pulls the toggle bar in a first direction, a representation of a product or service in the plurality of products or services shifts from the first off-center position to the center position, and from the center position to a second off-center position responsive to the pull in the first direction;

and

when the search requester pulls the toggle bar in a second direction, a representation of a product or service in the first plurality of search results shifts from the second off-center position to the center position, and from the center position to the first off-center position responsive to the pull in the second direction.

80. The computer-executed method of claim 70, the computer-executed method further comprising:

(C) receiving a selection of (i) a selected product or service in said plurality of products or services displayed on the first web page and (ii) an identification of an album, wherein the album comprises a plurality of records, each record comprising an address of a document or a data structure; and

(D) performing, responsive to the receiving (C), a computer-executed method comprising;

(i) obtaining a location of an image for the selected product or service from the hit description for the selected product or service in the search results schema; and

(ii) adding a record to the album stored, wherein the record comprises the location of the image.

81. The computer-executed method of claim 80, wherein a record in the plurality of records is stored on a remote computer and the receiving (C) comprises obtaining the record from the remote computer.

82. The computer-executed method of claim 80, the computer-executed method further comprising:

(E) receiving a request to review the album; and

(F) creating, responsive to the receiving (E), a second web page, wherein said second web page comprises instructions for

encoding a first image of a first document or a first data structure addressed by a first record in the plurality of records in the album in a center position of said second web page, and

encoding a second image of a second document or a second data structure addressed by a second record in the plurality of records in a first off-center position of said second web page relative to the first image, wherein the second image is rotated about a first axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the first off-center position of the second web page.

83. The computer-executed method of claim 82, wherein the first image or the second image is the image for the selected product or service added to the album by the performing (D).

84. The computer-executed method of claim 82, wherein the first image is the image for the selected search added to the album by the performing (D) and wherein the first image is modified between

(i) a time when the location of the image for the selected search result is added to a record in the album by the performing (D), and

(ii) a time when the creating (H) encodes the first image into said third web page.

85. The computer-executed method of claim 84, wherein the first image is the image for the selected search added to the album by the performing (D) and wherein the first image is modified between

(i) a time when the location of the image for the selected search result is added to a record in the album by the performing (D), and

(ii) a time when the creating (F) encodes the first image in order to include an updated price or availability for a product or a service.

86. The computer-executed method of claim 80, wherein a record in the plurality of records is a link is to a static graphic representation stored in a document repository in a remote location, wherein the static graphic representation is a static graphic representation of a document retrieved from the Internet at a time before the sending (A).

87. The computer-executed method of claim 80, the computer-executed method further comprising:

(E) receiving a request to share the album with a party associated with a remote computer; and

(F) performing, responsive to the request, a computer-executed method comprising;

(i) forming a link to the album stored in the remote location; and

(ii) causing an invitation to view the album to be sent to the remote computer, wherein the invitation comprises the link.

88. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising instructions for performing the computer-executed method of claim 70.

89. A computer, comprising:

a main memory;

one or more processors; and

one or more programs, stored in the main memory and executed by the one or more processors, the programs collecting including instructions for performing the computer-executed method of claim 70.