METHOD FOR GATHERING AND SUMMARIZING INTERNET INFORMATION

摘要

A computer method of gathering and summarizing information available through the Internet comprises collecting information from a plurality of Internet sites 14, 51 according to respective maps 52 of the Internet sites 14, converting the collected information from HTML-language web pages to XML-language documents 26, 53 and storing the XML-language documents in a storage medium, searching for documents 55 according to a search query 13 having at least one term and identifying the documents 26 found in the search, and displaying the documents as nodes 33 of a tree structure 32 having links 34 and nodes 33 so as to indicate similarity of the documents to each other.