| 摘要 |
<p>The invention provides for a method for receiving revenue by brokering searches for content available over a communication network. The steps of the method include providing a private communication network secured from a publicly available communication network, transmitting a request for bids to a plurality of search engines, accepting a bid from one search engine of the plurality of search engines, receiving a search request from the user while the user is connected to the private network, transmitting the search request to the one search engine and receiving search results from the one search engine in response to the search request, providing the search results to the user, and receiving a fee from the search engine. The bids represent fees paid by the search engines for providing search results in response to a search request for content that is located on a communication network and submitted by a user connected to the private network.</p> |
