Method and apparatus to search for information

• US 7,133,863 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2000
• Issued: 11/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Sharma, Niraj K., Kim, Ahritta J., Teng, Albert Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): MIZRAHI, DIANE D
• Application Number:
  US09/752,799
• Publication Number:
  US 20020152199A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,140 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 10, 707/103.R, 707200-206, 707100-1041, 709/202, 709/203, 709/214, 709/218, 709/219, 709/239, 709/242, 709/245, 709/247, 713/201, 370/352, 370/353, 715/505
• US Class Current: 707/708
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A method and system for searching for information is disclosed. The method includes storing a plurality of content categories and identifying, according to properties returned by a plurality of search engines, at least one search engine suited to service a query where the query has at least one content category of the plurality of content categories. The system includes a processor and a machine-readable medium including instructions that when executed by the processor result in performance of the disclosed method.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

storing a plurality of content categories; and

identifying, according to properties returned by a plurality of search engines, at least one search engine suited to service a query having at least one content category of the plurality of content categories.

2. The method of claim 1 in which identifying the at least one search engine further comprises:

identifying at least one domain of the at least one search engine suited to service the query.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

analyzing the content of a query to determine the at least one content category of the query; and

identifying at least one domain of the at least one search engine suited to service the query according to the content category.

4. The method of claim 2 in which identifying at least one domain of the at least one search engine suited to service the query further comprises:

identifying the at least one domain according to a scope of the query.

5. The method of claim 1 in which at least one content category of the plurality of content categories further comprises:

child categories.

6. An article comprising:

a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, result in;

storing a plurality of content categories; and

identifying, according to properties returned by a plurality of search engines, at least one search engine suited to service a query having at least one content category of the plurality of content categories.

7. The article of claim 6 in which execution of the instructions to identify the at least one search engine further results in:

identifying at least one domain of the at least one search engine suited to service the query.

8. The article of claim 6, further comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, result in:

analyzing the content of a query to determine the at least one content category of the query; and

identifying at least one domain of the at least one search engine suited to service the query according to the content category.

9. The article of claim 7 in which execution of the instructions to identify the at least one domain of the at least one search engine suited to service the query further results in:

identifying the at least one domain according to a scope of the query.

10. The article of claim 6 in which at least one content category of the plurality of content categories further comprises:

child categories.

11. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, result in;

storing a plurality of content categories; and

identifying, according to properties returned by a plurality of search engines, at least one search engine suited to service a query having at least one content category of the plurality of content categories.

12. The system of claim 11 in which execution of the instructions to identify the at least one search engine further results in:

identifying at least one domain of the at least one search engine suited to service the query.

13. The system of claim 11, further comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, result in:

analyzing the content of a query to determine the at least one content category of the query; and

identifying at least one domain of the at least one search engine suited to service the query according to the content category.

14. The system of claim 12 in which execution of the instructions to identify the at least one domain of the at least one search engine suited to service the query further results in:

identifying the at least one domain according to a scope of the query.

15. The system of claim 11 in which at least one content category of the plurality of content categories further comprises:

child categories.