METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGGREGATING, EXTRACTING AND PRESENTING REVIEW AND RATING DATA

摘要

In an embodiment, a system is provided. The system includes a ratings database and a website database. A web crawler is provided to crawl review sites and rating sites of the web. The web crawler is further to access data from the web and store data from the web in a ratings database. The web crawler is also to identify links to other review sites and ratings sites of the data from the web, to store the links in a website database, and to identify sites to crawl from the website database. A data analyzer is provided to analyze data of the ratings database and to normalize data from the web within the ratings database on an essentially continuous basis. A data presenter is provided to receive queries from users and to query the ratings database based on queries from users. The data presenter is to present data to a user responsive to queries and to filter data presented to the user responsive to further user queries.

主权项

1. A method of aggregating website information on a computer, comprising:
accessing a next website in a database of websites of the computer; receiving data from the next website at the computer; storing data from the next website in a ratings database of the computer; extracting links to other websites from the data from the next website; storing the links to other websites in the database of websites; advancing the next website of the database of websites within the database of websites to the website after the website just accessed; and repeating the accessing, receiving, storing data, extracting, storing the links and advancing.