METHODS TO GENERATE REVENUE FOR A GLOBAL INFORMATIONAL NETWORK-BASED MEDIA PROVIDER

摘要

A method to generate revenue for a global network-based media provider is disclosed (400). The method includes qualifying users and sponsors of an integrated web site which provides streamlining digital media and search capability to users (410). The integrated web site includes a predictive global search engine which updates links in a view of the integrated web site by making predictive demographic and psychographic associations to users' lifestyles based on user interactions with the integrated web site (420). The updated links include links to sponsor web sites that a user is predicted to be interested in, and the provider of the integrated web site (i.e., the media provider) is paid a monetary amount every time a user accesses a sponsor's web site (430).