System and method for geographically classifying business on the world-wide web

摘要

A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database. An intelligent geographic- and business topic-specific resource discovery system facilitates local commerce on the World-Wide Web and also reduces search time by accurately isolating information for end-users. Distinguishing and classifying business pages on the Web by business categories using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes is achieved through an automatic iterative process.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
traversing, by an indexer robot, one or more URLs to identify content associated with the one or more of URLs; storing, within a URL index, the one or more URLs and the identified content, wherein the identified content is associated within the URL index with the one or more URLs; utilizing, by the indexer robot, the identified content to query a first third-party database for address information associated with the one or more URLs; storing, within the URL index, the address information from the first third-party database, in association with the one or more URLs; utilizing, by the indexer robot, the address information to query a second third-party database for a company name associated with the address information; and maintaining the company name in the URL index in association with the address information and the one or more URLs when the company name from the second third-party database matches a company name identified from the indexer robot traversing the one or more URLs.