Administration of search results
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSusann Marie Keohane, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Jessica Murillo, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
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Abstract
Administration of search results including displaying by a browser a set of search results from a web search, each search result containing a link to a web page; selecting a search result for exclusion from display, thereby identifying a selected search result, including selecting for exclusion from display search results containing related links, wherein related links include links related to the link in the selected search result; and displaying the search results without the selected search result and without the search results containing related links.
Claims3
A method for administration of search results, the method comprising:
- displaying by a browser a set of search results from a web search, each search result containing a link to a web page;
- selecting a search result for exclusion from display, thereby identifying a selected search result, including selecting for exclusion from display search results containing related links, wherein related links include links related to the link in the selected search result;
- and
- displaying the search results without the selected search result and without the search results containing related links,
- wherein selecting search results containing related links further comprises selecting for exclusion from display only search results that contain links to web pages located above a specified depth in a hierarchy of web pages in the web site linked by the selected search result.
A system for administration of search results, the system comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:
- displaying by a browser a set of search results from a web search, each search result containing a link to a web page;
- selecting a search result for exclusion from display, including selecting for exclusion from display search results containing related links, wherein related links include links related to the link in the selected search result;
- and
- displaying the search results without the selected search result and without the search results containing related links,
- wherein selecting search results containing related links further comprises selecting for exclusion from display only search results that contain links to web pages located above a specified depth in a hierarchy of web pages in the web site linked by the selected search result.
A computer program product for administration of search results, the computer program product comprising:
- a recording medium;
- means, recorded on the recording medium, for displaying by a browser a set of search results from a web search, each search result containing a link to a web page;
- means, recorded on the recording medium, for selecting a search result for exclusion from display, including means, recorded on the recording medium, for selecting for exclusion from display search results containing related links, wherein related links include links related to the link in the selected search result;
- and
- means, recorded on the recording medium, for displaying the search results without the selected search result and without the search results containing related links,
- wherein means, recorded on the recording medium, for selecting search results containing related links further comprises means, recorded on the recording medium, for selecting for exclusion from display only search results that contain links to web pages located above a specified depth in a hierarchy of web pages in the web site linked by the selected search result.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.