KR20000024234A - Method for providing integrated web search service through network system and computer-readable medium recording the method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for providing an integrated web search service using network system and a device for reading the same are provided to perform an integrated web search by operating all registered search engines through one click. CONSTITUTION: A method for providing an integrated web search service using network system comprises the steps of: storing matched operators according to a plurality of search engine and a search engine by separating them according to each operator; selecting the search engine and inputting a search word; extracting URLs as a search result and removing duplicated URLs; extracting existing sites of the extracted URLs; and providing the extracted sites to a computer or a potable terminal. A recording medium for reading the same executes the method by using a computer program.

Description

Method for providing integrated web search service through network system and computer-readable medium recording the method}

The present invention relates to a search service providing method, and more particularly, to a method of providing a search service by integrating a plurality of search engines and a computer-readable recording medium recording the method.

A search engine receives a search word (keyword) from a computer user and tells a list of sites that contain a keyword, that is, a computer user can obtain desired information.

However, since existing search engines such as AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, Yahoo, Simmani, etc. are widely used in the database and search method of the recorded information, computer users can search by using one search engine. If no information was obtained, we moved to another search engine and ran the search again.

In addition, when a computer user enters a keyword to search for and combines words by using operators such as "and" and "or", the combination form for each search engine is different, and each combination of search engines changes the combination form. It was very cumbersome because you had to check and enter.

Moreover, when a user attempted to actually access a site obtained as a result of a search, the site was not actually a bad link site, and thus the desired information was not obtained.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, the computer user can get the results from all the search engines he wants with a single search word input, remove the duplicate URL from the URL obtained from the search results, the actual URL Only to provide an integrated web search service providing method using a network system obtained as a search result.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a computer readable recording medium having recorded the above method.

1 is a block diagram of a system for providing an integrated web search service according to the present invention.

2A and 2B are flowcharts illustrating a method for providing an integrated web search service according to the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, a method for providing an integrated web search service using a system in which a user computer or a portable information communication terminal, a server computer, and a plurality of search computers are connected through a network, the method comprising: (a) a plurality of searches; Storing operators matched with each other according to engines and search engines by operator and storing them in a database; (b) selecting a search engine to be used for searching by the user and inputting a search word; (c) accessing all the search engines selected by the user, extracting the URL obtained as a result of the search, and removing duplicate URLs therefrom; (d) extracting only sites that actually exist among URLs from which duplicate URLs are removed in step (c); And (e) providing the URLs extracted in step (d) to a computer or a portable information communication terminal.

In order to achieve the above object, a computer-readable recording medium recording a method for providing an integrated web search service using a system in which a user computer or a portable information communication terminal, a server computer, and a plurality of search computers are connected through a network. A method comprising: (a) storing a plurality of search engines and operators matched with each other according to a search engine in a database by dividing them by operators; (b) selecting a search engine to be used for searching by the user and inputting a search word; (c) accessing all the search engines selected by the user, extracting the URL obtained as a result of the search, and removing duplicate URLs therefrom; (d) extracting only sites that actually exist among URLs from which duplicate URLs are removed in step (c); And (e) providing a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the step of providing the URLs extracted in the step (d) to a computer or a portable information communication terminal.

Next, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a computer network system to which the present invention is applied.

The server computer 14 is a computer provided in a company providing an integrated web search service according to the present invention, and the user computer 10 is a computer of a person who receives an integrated web search service from the server computer 14.

The server computer 14 stores a plurality of search engines and operators that match each other according to the search engines and stores them in a database. Since the server computer 14 connects to a plurality of search engines 16, 18, and 19 selected by the user and inputs a search word, the computer user does not need to individually connect to each search engine and input a search word and an operator.

The server computer 14 deletes duplicate URLs and URLs that do not actually exist among the URLs obtained after executing the search, and transmits only the resulting URLs to the user computer 10 via the network.

On the other hand, the user computer 10 connected to the network is equipped with a web browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.) that can display the web content in the form of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). The web browser allows the server computer 14 to connect to each search engine 16, 18, 19 via the network and display the read URL.

2A and 2B are flowcharts illustrating a method for providing an integrated web search service according to the present invention.

More specifically, FIG. 2A shows a flowchart of a process of registering a search engine to be used by a computer user and inputting a search word in a database of a server computer.

A user accesses a server computer providing an integrated web search service from his computer equipped with a web browser (202), inputs a search term he wants to search (204), and selects search engines he wants to use. For example, about five are selected (206).

In operation 210, the input search word is converted into a combination of search terms suitable for each search engine and registered in a database of a server computer.

Using the search engine and keywords registered in the database, the server computer can connect to each search engine and perform a search.

A description with reference to FIG. 2B is as follows.

When the server computer 14 receives a search request from the user's computer (302), the server computer 14 accesses the search engines selected by the user (304), and converts and stores the search terms, which are converted into a combination form for each search engine from the database, to each search engine. A search request is made while inputting (308). The URLs obtained as a result of the search execution are extracted and stored in the memory (310), and the URLs stored in the memory are compared (312).

If the duplicated URL is stored in the memory (314), the duplicated URLs are removed (316). Therefore, only URLs which are not duplicated in the memory are stored as search results.

After the search is performed in all the search engines selected by the user, it is checked whether the URLs stored in the memory actually exist (326).

At this time, as a method of checking whether the URLs actually exist, the html document existing in the URL can be examined by reading the existence of the document and the head method of reading only the summarized information.

If the read URL is a site that does not actually exist, the URL is deleted (328), and only the URL that actually exists is transmitted to the user computer as a search result and displayed (330). Therefore, the user can obtain only the URL which actually exists on the Internet as a search result.

When the integrated web search is finished, the computer user can obtain only the URL which is actually present as a search result without being duplicated. Therefore, when the user actually wants to access the URL obtained as a result of the search and obtain the desired information, it is possible to prevent the user from connecting to a site already connected or unnecessary access to a site that does not actually exist.

Meanwhile, embodiments of the present invention can be written as a program that can be executed on a computer. That is, the various steps included in the method according to the invention can be stored on a computer readable recording medium. The media includes recording media such as magnetic storage media (e.g., ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, etc.), optical read media (e.g., CD-ROM, DVD, etc.) and carrier waves (e.g., transmitted over the Internet). .

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and of course, modifications can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

Therefore, the scope of the claims in the present invention will not be defined within the scope of the detailed description, but will be limited to the claims below.

According to the present invention, an integrated web search service is provided which connects to a plurality of search engines registered in a single connection, performs a search, and transmits only a site which does not overlap and actually exists to a user computer. .

First, there is no need to access multiple search engines one by one, and there is no need to repeatedly enter the same search terms.

Second, since only the URL that actually exists is provided as a search result, it is possible to prevent the computer user from unnecessary access to the URL that does not actually exist.

Third, since the duplicated URL is removed and provided as a search result, the traffic volume of the network can be reduced, and the user can be prevented from repeatedly accessing the same site.

Claims (3)

A method for providing an integrated web search service using a system in which a user computer or a portable information communication terminal, a server computer, and a plurality of search computers are connected through a network, (a) storing a plurality of search engines and operators matching each other according to the search engines by operator and storing them in a database; (b) selecting a search engine to be used for searching by the user and inputting a search word; (c) accessing all the search engines selected by the user, extracting the URL obtained as a result of the search, and removing duplicate URLs therefrom; (d) extracting only sites that actually exist among URLs from which duplicate URLs are removed in step (c); And (e) providing the extracted URLs in step (d) to a computer or a portable information communication terminal. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) (f) requesting the search engines selected by the computer user to store the URLs obtained from the search results in memory; (g) removing the duplicated URLs among the URLs stored in the memory and storing the duplicated URLs in the memory. In a computer-readable recording medium recording a method for providing an integrated web search service using a system in which a user computer or a portable information communication terminal, a server computer, and a plurality of search computers are connected through a network, (a) storing a plurality of search engines and operators matching each other according to the search engines by operator and storing them in a database; (b) selecting a search engine to be used for searching by the user and inputting a search word; (c) accessing all the search engines selected by the user, extracting the URL obtained as a result of the search, and removing duplicate URLs therefrom; (d) extracting only sites that actually exist among URLs from which duplicate URLs are removed in step (c); And (e) a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the step of providing the URLs extracted in the step (d) to a computer or a portable information communication terminal.