Site finding

A method of finding WWW pages, each of which includes at least one list of links to desired Internet resources, comprising:

• providing a list of URLs;
• automatically generating at least one search query for an Internet search tool for WWW pages that include links to at least one URL of said list of URLs;
• executing said at least one generated query to provide search results that include at least one of said searched for WWW pages;
• generating a response comprising at least one indication of one of said WWW pages, responsive to said search results;
• wherein said generating at least one search query, comprises:
• dividing said list of URLs into a plurality of groups and generating at least a single query for each group, wherein said at least a single query does not differentiate which URL in said group is pointed to by the results of the search,
• wherein said executing comprises executing said generated at least one query for a plurality of said groups, generating a plurality of result lists;
• and
• wherein all of said groups have a same number of members.

A method of finding WWW pages, each of which includes at least one list of links to desired Internet resources, comprising:

• providing a list of URLs;
• automatically generating at least one search query for an Internet search tool for WWW pages that include links to at least one URL of said list of URLs;
• executing said at least one generated query to provide search results that include at least one of said searched for WWW pages;
• generating a response comprising at least one indication of one of said WWW pages, responsive to said search results;
• wherein said generating at least one search query, comprises:
• dividing said list of URLs into a plurality of groups and generating at least a single query for each group, wherein said at least a single query does no differentiate which URL in said group is pointed to by the results of the search,
• wherein said executing comprises executing said generated at least one query for a plurality of said groups, generating a plurality of result lists;
• and
• wherein at least three of said groups have a different number of members from each other.

A method of finding WWW pages, each of which includes at least one list of links to desired Internet resources, comprising:

• providing a list of URLs;
• automatically generating at least one search query for an Internet search tool for WWW pages that include links to at least one URL of said list of URLs;
• executing said at least one generated query to provide search results that include at least one of said searched for WWW pages;
• generating a response comprising at least one indication of one of said WWW pages, responsive to said search results;
• wherein said generating at least one search query, comprises:
• dividing said list of URLs into a plurality of groups and generating at least a single query for each group, wherein said at least a single query does not differentiate which URL in said group is pointed to by the results of the search,
• wherein said executing comprises executing said generated at least one query for a plurality of said groups, generating a plurality of result lists;
• collating said result lists into a single list of search results;
• ranking the contents of at least one of said result lists;
• wherein said ranking comprises ranking responsive to the presence of at least one key word in pages of said at least one result list;
• wherein said keyword is a word that serves as a statistical indicator that the page is a hub;
• and
• wherein said key word is selected from the group “links”, “index” and “resource”.

A method of finding WWW pages, each of which includes at least one list of links to desired Internet resources, comprising:

• providing a list of URLs;
• automatically generating at least one query for an Internet search tool for WWW pages that include links to at least one URL of said list of URLs;
• executing said at least one generated query to provide search results that include at least one of said searched for WWW pages:
• generating a response comprising at least one indication of one of said WWW pages, responsive to said search results;
• wherein said response comprises a list of links listed in at least one of said WWW pages;
• and
• wherein said list indicates pages not including a link from the contents of any URL in a predetermined list of URLs.

A computer-implemented method of generating documents based on a search query, comprising:

• obtaining an initial set of documents relevant to the search query;
• assigning relevance scores to the documents based on references between the documents within the initial set;
• and
• sorting by at least one of ranking, grouping or filtering the documents based on the assigned relevance scores.

A computer-implemented method of responding to a search query from a user, the method comprising:

• receiving the search query from the user;
• generating a list of relevant documents based on search terms of the query;
• generating relevance scores for the documents in the list of relevant documents based on references between the documents in the list;
• and
• returning a set of relevant documents to the user, the set being sorted by at least one of ranking, grouping or filtering based on the relevance scores.

A computer-implemented method of providing search results, comprising:

• providing a search term;
• generating a limited list of results indexed to said search term;
• generating a limited set of pages including links to said limited list and indexed to said search term;
• generating a set of search results responsive to the number of links from said limited set to pages in said limited list.

A computer-implemented method of generating documents based on a search query, comprising:

• obtaining an initial set of documents relevant to the search query, wherein the initial set of documents relevant to the search query comprises at least two targets and at least one hub wherein a target is a site that contains a search query term and wherein a hub is a site that points to a plurality of documents and wherein said plurality of documents are targets in the initial set;
• assigning relevance scores to the documents based on references from the at least one hub to targets within the initial set;
• and
• sorting by at least one of ranking, grouping or filtering the documents based on the assigned relevance scores.

A computer-implemented method of generating documents based on a search query, comprising:

• obtaining an initial set of documents relevant to the search query, wherein the initial set of documents relevant to the search query comprises at least two targets and at least one hub wherein a target is a site that contains a search query term;
• assinging relevance scores to the documents obtained in the initial set based on references between the documents within the initial set;
• and
• sorting by at least one of ranking, grouping or filtering the documents based on the assigned relevance scores.

A method of finding WWW pages, each of which includes at least one list of links to desired Internet resources, comprising:

• providing a list of URLs;
• automatically generating at least one query for an Internet search tool for WWW pages that include links to at least one URL of said list of URLs;
• executing said at least one generated query to provide relevance search results, wherein relevant search results include at least one of said searched for WWW pages;
• and,
• generating a response comprising at least one indication of one of said WWW pages, responsive to said search results.