Providing a search-result filters toolbar

摘要

Computer-readable media and methods to provide a toolbar application are described. The toolbar application receives indicators for determining when a context-specific search is executed. The toolbar application monitors uniform resource locator (URL) addresses to which a browser navigates for the inclusion of an indicator. Upon identifying an indicator in a URL the toolbar application presents filters that are associated with the indicator in a toolbar user interface. A user's selection of one or more of the filters is received at the toolbar user interface and the corresponding filters are applied to the context-specific search results by modifying the identified URL with a modifier associated with a selected filter and causing the browser or search engine to re-execute the search query with the selected filters applied. The filtered search results are presented to the user. The toolbar user interface is modified to indicate the application of the selected filters.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for providing a toolbar displayed in a browser that includes filters for filtering context-specific search results, the method comprising:
receiving one or more indicators that are associated with one or more filters that are useable to filter one or more context-specific search results obtained by the search engine; monitoring, via a computing device, a uniform resource locator (URL) address to which a browser navigates; identifying at least one indicator of the one or more received indicators that is contained within the monitored URL; determining that one or more filters are associated with the identified at least one indicator, and presenting, responsive to identifying the at least one indicator, at least one associated filter of the one or more associated filters, the at least one associated filter being presented in association with a toolbar on a computer display.