Galaxy search display

摘要

A computer implemented system and method presents search results in various forms upon a physical display. The spacing and movement of presented search results may be subjected to system defined gravitational forces wherein presented search results are shown as spheres or other icons of various sizes positioned at various distances from the center of the display. Displayed search results with greater ranking are displayed as relatively larger spheres or icons nearer the center of a display as compared to lower ranking results, which are smaller and displayed further afield. Ranking is shown as a matter of degree, rather than just as an ordinal list as in the related art. Attributes, such as link age, quantity, and other characteristics, of represented websites and various interconnections among represented websites are depicted by user controlled toggles.

主权项

1. A system presenting search results upon a physical display, the system comprising:
a) a non-transitory machine readable storage medium containing machine readable instructions; b) a processor coupled to the non-transitory machine readable storage medium, the processor executing the machine readable instructions to cause the processor to: i. present an input interface upon a display screen to accept user input of a search string; ii. transmit the search string to a search engine; iii. accept search results from the search engine, the search results including rank values; iv. transform the search results into representative icons with the icons having non-linear positional, size, shape, color, and decorative properties, the positional properties, size, shape, color, and decorative properties adjusted by user selected options; v. transform the non-linear positional, size, shape, color, and decorative properties into screen input; vi. generate the display of links entering or exiting the search results; vii. transmit the screen input to the display screen; viii. wherein a search result:
a) with a relatively lame number of lower rated links is displayed with short thin lines to emulate peach fuzz;b) with relatively many medium rated links is displayed with thick spaghetti type lines; andc) with relatively few highly rated links is displayed with a spiky emblematic depiction.