Method and apparatus for populating, indexing and searching a non-html web content database

摘要

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for populating, indexing and searching a non-html web content database. Current web search engines are primarily concerned with indexing web pages according to their text content. Means for effectively indexing and searching for multimedia content on the www are missing. Non-html web content is located by spidering the results of a web search query or category selection. The located content items are indexed with a keyword used in the query or the category. The keyword can then be used to retrieve the items directly. <IMAGE>