Method and system for aggregation of search results

摘要

Disclosed is an approach for providing an improved approach for searching and aggregation of searches on the internet, which allows more flexibility to perform and display search results, and also provides searching for a broad range of secondary search sites. A virtual layer is used to provide web page components to implement the searching and aggregation of search results, so that additional search results from secondary web sites can be aggregated with the search results from a primary web site. The aggregated results can then be displayed to the user at the primary search site. By using the virtual layer approach of embodiments of the present invention, this allows the aggregated search results to be placed on and overlaid with the web page from any desired search page. In addition, the searching can be specified for any secondary search sites, even sites which are not particularly with the same subject space as the primary site.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method for implementing aggregation of search results, comprising:
using a processor at a client system to implement a virtual layer on a host web page, wherein the host web page includes a first set of search results from performing a search using one or more search terms at a primary search site associated with the host web page, and wherein the virtual layer is not implemented natively by a server associated with the host web page; sending the one or more search terms used to perform the search at the primary search site to one or more secondary search sites; generating additional search results, in which the additional search results are from performing one or more searches at the one or more secondary search sites using the one or more search terms used to perform the search at the primary search site; and displaying the host web page at the client system, wherein the additional search results are superimposed onto the host web page using the virtual layer implemented at the client system, and in which the additional search results are presented in a format that mimics native presentation characteristics of the one or more secondary search sites.