JP2008257666A - Program for displaying search result list - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform comparative examination of search results by a plurality of search engines with a reduced labor hour by displaying in what place in each search engine a specific page is listed in a visually easy-to-understand manner in comparing the search results by the plurality of search engines. <P>SOLUTION: The program comprises procedures of transmitting a request to the plurality of search engines to acquire search results; displaying the acquired search results by the plurality of search engines as a list; and specifying a page corresponding to a position where a mouse is placed in the search result list to highlight the display part of the page in each search engine of the search result list. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a method of displaying a list of search results of a plurality of search engines in a form that is easy for humans to understand.

  To view and compare the search results of multiple search engines at the same time, display the search result pages of each search engine on the screen using an Internet browser and compare them.

  However, in order to find out how many arbitrary pages in the search results of a specific search engine are displayed in the search results of other search engines, search the search result page by URL or page title. If there are many pages to be surveyed, the labor is very large.

  In the present invention, when comparing the search results of a plurality of search engines, the position of a specific page displayed on each search engine is visually displayed in an easily understandable manner, and the search results of the plurality of search engines are compared. It is an issue to reduce the labor when doing so.

  In order to solve this problem, the invention of claim 1 transmits a request to a plurality of search engines to acquire search results, displays the acquired search results of the plurality of search engines as a list, and displays a search result list. The page corresponding to the position where the mouse is placed in the table is specified, and the display portion of the page in each search engine in the search result list is highlighted.

  According to the present invention, when comparing the search results of a plurality of search engines, it is possible to visually and intuitively recognize how many arbitrary pages included in the search results are displayed on each search engine. The labor required for comparing the search results of a plurality of search engines, which is necessary, is greatly reduced.

  Requests are transmitted to a plurality of search engines, the HTML source of the search result page of each search engine is acquired, and information such as the URL and title of each page included in the search result is acquired.

  The acquired URL and title are displayed on the screen as a table with the horizontal axis as the search engine and the vertical axis as the search result display order.

  Get the page corresponding to the position of the mouse in the list displayed on the screen. Specifically, the page display part in the list is enclosed by an HTML div element or the like, and a handler relating to mouse movement such as “onmouseover” is set in this div element.

  When the page at the mouse position is specified, the position of the page in each search engine is examined. The same URL may be searched for using the HREF attribute of the A tag, or a unique ID may be assigned to the display portion of each page in advance.

  When the position of the page in each search engine is acquired, the display portion of the page is highlighted. For emphasis, there are methods such as bolding characters, changing the background color, and drawing a line from the mouse position to that position, using a Java script.

Claims (1)

  A procedure for sending a request to multiple search engines to obtain search results on a computer, a procedure for displaying the obtained search results of multiple search engines as a list, and a mouse in the search result list A program for specifying a page corresponding to the current position and executing a procedure for highlighting the display portion of the page in each search engine in the search result list.