ADMINISTRATION OF SEARCH RESULTS

• US 20170103136A1
• Filed: 12/20/2016
• Published: 04/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Keohane, Susann M., McBrearty, Gerald F., Mullen, Shawn P., Murillo, Jessica K., Shieh, Johnny M.
• Application Number:
  US15/385,401
• Publication Number:
  US 20170103136A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A web browser displays a set of search results from a web search, each search result indicating a link to a web page. Responsive to selection of a first of the set of search results for exclusion from display, a subset of one or more of the set of search results that indicate related links is identified. The related links comprise links have a same domain name as the link of the first search result. The first search result and the subset of the set of search results are excluded. The search results are displayed without the excluded ones of the set of search results.

Claims

1. A method for administration of search results, the method comprising:

displaying a set of search results from a search;

responsive to selection of a first search result of the set of search results,

identifying a subset of one or more of the set of search results that indicate related links, wherein the related links comprise links having a same domain name as the link of the first search result;

excluding all of the set of search results except the first search result and the subset of the set of search results; and

displaying the first search result and the subset of the set of search results.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the related links of the subset of the set of search results match the link of the first search result up to a specified depth in a uniform resource locator (URL) pathway.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said determining that the related links of the subset of the set of search results match the link of the first search result up to the specified depth in the URL pathway comprises determining that URLs of the links of the subset of the search results match a URL of the link of the first search result up to a number of pathway delimiters in accordance with a number that represents the specified depth.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said excluding all of the set of search results except the first search result and the subset of the set of search results comprises modifying a web page to exclude all of the set of search results except the first search result and the subset of the set of search results.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said modifying the web page comprises modifying a copy of the web page in a cache of a web browser.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein said displaying the first search result and the subset of the set of search results comprises refreshing display of the web page after said modifying.

7. An apparatus comprising:

a computer processor; and

a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions configured to;

display a set of search results from a search,

responsive to selection of a first search result of the set of search results,

identify a subset of one or more of the set of search results that indicate related links, wherein the related links comprise links having a same domain name as the link of the first search result,

exclude all of the set of search results except the first search result and the subset of the set of search results, and

display the first search result and the subset of the set of search results.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the computer program instructions are further configured to:

determine that the related links of the subset of the set of search results match the link of the first search result up to a specified depth in a uniform resource locator (URL) pathway.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the computer program instructions configured to determine that the related links of the subset of the set of search results match the link of the first search result up to the specified depth in the URL pathway include computer program instructions configured to determine that URLs of the links of the subset of the search results match a URL of the link of the first search result up to a number of pathway delimiters in accordance with a number that represents the specified depth.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the computer program instructions configured to exclude all of the set of search results except the first search result and the subset of the set of search results include computer program instructions configured to modify a web page to exclude all of the set of search results except the first search result and the subset of the set of search results.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the web page comprises a copy of a web page in a cache of a web browser.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the computer program instructions configured to display the first search result and the subset of the set of search results comprise wherein the computer program instructions configured to refresh display of the web page after said modification.

13. A computer program product for administration of search results, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory recording medium having computer program instructions stored therein, the computer program instructions configured to:

display a set of search results from a search;

responsive to selection of a first search result of the set of search results,

identify a subset of one or more of the set of search results that indicate related links, wherein the related links comprise links having a same domain name as the link of the first search result,

exclude all of the set of search results except the first search result and the subset of the set of search results; and

display the first search result and the subset of the set of search results.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer program instructions are further configured to:

determine that the related links of the subset of the set of search results match the link of the first search result up to a specified depth in a uniform resource locator (URL) pathway.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the computer program instructions configured to determine that the related links of the subset of the set of search results match the link of the first search result up to the specified depth in the URL pathway include computer program instructions configured to determine that URLs of the links of the subset of the search results match a URL of the link of the first search result up to a number of pathway delimiters in accordance with a number that represents the specified depth.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer program instructions configured to exclude all of the set of search results except the first search result and the subset of the set of search results include computer program instructions configured to modify a web page to exclude all of the set of search results except the first search result and the subset of the set of search results.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the web page comprises a copy of a web page in a cache of a web browser.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the computer program instructions configured to display the first search result and the subset of the set of search results comprise wherein the computer program instructions configured to refresh display of the web page after said modification.