Assisted hybrid mobile browser

A system for identifying related content items, the system comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing executable computer program code configured to:
• receive data from a client device, the data including a destination uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a target webpage browsed by the client device;
• retrieve the target webpage and content of the target webpage, the content including textual content associated with the target webpage;
• identify strings of text in the textual content based on the formatting of the textual content;
• assign a weight to each string of text based on a frequency of occurrence of the string of text and formatting associated with the string of text in association with the target webpage;
• select, based on the weights associated with the strings of text, a string of text to vary using keywords from a second string of text to generate a search query comprising a keyword from the text string and a keyword from the second string of text, the keyword from the second string selected based on an associated weight;
• and
• retrieving information about content items related to the string of text using the generated search query.

A computer program product for identifying related content items, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer program code for:

• receiving, at a server, data from a client device including a destination uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a target webpage browsed by the client device;
• retrieving, at the server, the target webpage and content of the target webpage, the content including textual content associated with the target webpage;
• identifying strings of text in the textual content based on the formatting of the textual content;
• weighting each string of text based on a frequency of occurrence of the string of text and formatting associated with the string of text in association with the target webpage;
• selecting, based on the weights associated with the strings of text, a string of text to vary using keywords from a second string of text to generate a search query comprising a keyword from the text string and a keyword from the second string of text, the keyword from the second string selected based on an associated weight;
• and
• retrieving information about content items related to the string of text using the generated search query.