Methods and apparatus for searching with awareness of geography and languages

摘要

A system that automatically discerning the best combinations of a user query's geographical origin and language, retrieving and displaying search results accordingly. A record on the system are associated with a geographic location and a language. A record could be composed of two or more records, each of which associates with a location and a language. A record could be in rich media format.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a record repository database comprising a plurality of records, wherein a record of the plurality of records is associated with at least one of a geographic location and at least one language; and a search engine computer server communicatively coupled with the record repository database and capable of having a query interaction, the search engine computer server configured to:
discern a set of languages and a set of suspected origins from a format of a user search query,find at least one combination comprising a language and an origin from the set of languages and the set of suspected origins, respectively, anduse the at least one combination to guide retrieval of search results including records responsive to the format of the user search query submitted to the search engine computer server,
wherein the set of suspected origins comprises a statistical area and a location of the user interface, andwherein the geographic location comprises Global Position System coordinates.