SEARCH ENGINE AND INDEXING TECHNIQUES

• US 20110016106A1
• Filed: 09/22/2010
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Local.com
• Original Assignee: Local Corporation
• Inventors: Xia, Xiongwu
• Granted Patent: US 8,176,082 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/706
• 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 comprising:

utilizing a first reference pointer to retrieve first content, the first reference pointer at least in part specifying a storage location of the first content;

utilizing a second reference pointer to retrieve second content, the second reference pointer at least in part specifying a storage location of the second content;

detecting a presence of geographical information in the second content; and

creating an index to indicate that the first content is associated with an entity at a physical location as specified by the geographical information in the second content.