Method and apparatus of indexing web pages of a web site for geographical searchine based on user location
First Claim
1. A method for geographically indexing information, the method comprising:
- identifying a geocoded web page of a web site;
identifying a aeocode 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;
identifying at least one geocodable web page of the web site, the geocodable web page does not contain the geocode;
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 and to indexed content of the at least one geocodable web page to allow geographical searching of the content of the geocoded web page and the at least one geocodable web page relative to the geocode.
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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.
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23 Claims
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1. A method for geographically indexing information, the method comprising:
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identifying a geocoded web page of a web site; identifying a aeocode 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; identifying at least one geocodable web page of the web site, the geocodable web page does not contain the geocode; 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 and to indexed content of the at least one geocodable web page to allow geographical searching of the content of the geocoded web page and the at least one geocodable web page relative to the geocode. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for geographically indexing and searching information, the method comprising:
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crawling web pages over a computer network and storing the web pages in a repository; extracting geographical information from certain of the web pages in the repository and associating geocodes, based on the extracted geographical information, with the web pages that do not contain geographical information; sorting the web pages according to the geographical information and storing the web pages within folders, each folder containing web pages from a specific geographical region; assigning georanking scores for web pages based on link popularity within a geographical region represented by the folder containing the web pages; generating an inverted index of the sorted identified web pages and storing geocodes and georanking scores in the inverted index; and allowing geographical searching of the index over a network to identify web pages having content of interest to a user and located nearest to a user defined location.
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