Computerized system and method for tracking the geographic relevance of website listings and providing graphics and data regarding the same

摘要

The present invention generally relates to a computerized system and method for tracking and displaying data identifying the geographic relevance of website listings on Internet search engines, parked web pages, ISP redirect web pages, and other similar web listing services without requiring extra input from Internet users. Each time an Internet user clicks on a website link provided on one of these web services, the software of the present invention tracks that person's decision in selecting the link, along with his or her geographic location. The software automatically collects and stores this information in a database in a format that can be quickly accessed and used in the future when other Internet users perform the same keyword search or visit the parked/redirect page again. Based on this stored information, the software automatically sends signals to the Internet user's computer that causes his or her web browser to display data and graphics that indicate whether the websites listed on the web page has been frequently visited and found to be popular by other Internet users in various geographic areas. As a result, the software of the present invention enables search engines, parked/redirect web pages, and other similar web services to be automatically organized by popularity within a geographic region. Moreover, each time data is collected by this software (e.g., when a user selects a link), the search engine and parked page will grow naturally and intelligently, thereby becoming more and more useful to the Internet user.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for processing, at a server, electronic searches comprising the steps of:
(a) receiving, at the server, a first search request from a first computing device; (b) determining a geographic region that is a subject of the first search request; (c) determining a geographic region of the first computing device; (d) tracking searches that were performed by other computing devices prior to receiving the first search request; (e) identifying prior searches made by the other computing devices that:
(i) involved the same or similar search terms as the first search request, and(ii) were received from other computing devices located in the vicinity of the first computing device; (f) assessing the number of times that websites provided in response to the identified prior searches were selected by users of the other computing devices; (g) outputting first search results that are responsive to the first search request received from the first computing device, wherein the first search results are ranked based upon the number of times that the identified prior search results were selected by the other computing devices.