GLOBAL COMPUTER INFORMATION NETWORK META SEARCH

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, JUST FIND IT!	Profusion.com	709 West Huron, Suite 250 Ann Arbor MI 48103	Global computer information network meta-search services;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A meta-data generator is described for generating meta-data relating to at least one Web site, the meta-data identifying, for a Web site providing at least one Web page, identification of, for other Web sites, at least one Web page associated therewith having a selected relationship with the at least one Web site. The meta-data generator includes an information accumulation module, a meta-data generation module and a meta-data storage module. The information accumulation module accumulates Web page information associated with respective Web sites. The meta-data generation module uses the accumulated Web page information according to a selected meta-data generation methodology to generate said meta-data, and the meta-data storage module stores the meta-data generated by the meta-data generation module. Several meta-data generation methodologies are described, including a link (Web page identifier) analysis methodology, two Web page usage analysis methodologies; and a search results analysis methodology. In the link analysis methodology, meta-data is generated associated with Web pages based on the proximity of links to Web pages in each of a plurality of Web pages. In the Web page usage analysis methodologies, the meta-data generator 25 generates meta-data based on the sequence of Web sites which operators enable their computers to request Web pages during a session. In the search results analysis methodology, the meta-data generator generates meta-data based on activities of an operator after he or she receives results generated by a search engine in response to a search query.