Folksonomy weighted search and advertisement placement system and method

1 . A method for folksonomy weighted searching comprising:

identifying two or more Internet resources associated with a folksonomy;

identifying one or more words or phrases in the Internet resources;

weighting the words or phrases based on a frequency of use; and

generating a database associating the words or phrases with at least one of the Internet resources.

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein weighting the words or phrases based on the frequency of use comprises weighting the words or phrases based on a frequency of use in the Internet resources.

3 . The method of claim 1 wherein weighting the words or phrases based on the frequency of use comprises weighting the words or phrases based on a frequency of use in the Internet resources and a weight associated with one or more of the Internet resources.

4 . The method of claim 1 wherein generating the database associating the words or phrases with at least one of the Internet resources comprises assigning a weight to one or more of the Internet resources.

5 . The method of claim 1 further comprising weighting one or more of the Internet resources.

6 . The method of claim 1 further comprising weighting one or more of the Internet resources based on a frequency of access.

7 . The method of claim 1 further comprising associating advertising with one or more of the Internet resources based on a weight associated with one or more of the words or phrases.

8 . The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a search request; and

identifying one or more of the Internet resources based on a correlation between the search request and the one or more words or phrases.

9 . A method for folksonomy weighted advertisement placement comprising:

receiving a search request;

identifying one or more Internet resources associated with the search request based on a weighted folksonomy;

identifying advertising content associated with the search request based on the weighted folksonomy; and

providing the one or more Internet resources and the advertising content in response to the search request.

10 . The method of claim 9 wherein providing the one or more Internet resources and the advertising content in response to the search request comprises including the advertising content and a list of the one or more Internet resources.

11 . The method of claim 9 wherein providing the one or more Internet resources and the advertising content in response to the search request comprises embedding the advertising content within one or more of the Internet resources.

12 . The method of claim 9 wherein providing the one or more Internet resources and the advertising content in response to the search request comprises providing the advertising content as a pop-up when a user selects one or more of the Internet resources.

13 . A system for folksonomy weighted searching comprising:

a folksonomy source system storing two or more Internet resources; and

means for weighting words or phrases associated with a folksonomy in the two or more Internet resources.

14 . The system of claim 13 further comprising a grammatical filter system applying a grammatical filter to the words or phrases.

15 . The system of claim 13 further comprising a folksonomy list system generating a data structure for associating the words or phrases with the two or more Internet resources.

16 . The system of claim 13 further comprising an advertising association system associating advertising content with a search request.

17 . A system for folksonomy weighted advertising comprising:

an advertisement association system receiving advertising content; and

means for associating the advertising with one of two or more Internet resources based on a weighted folksonomy.

18 . The system of claim 17 further comprising means for filtering the Internet resources based on the advertising content.

19 . The system of claim 17 further comprising means for scoring two or more weighted folksonomies based on the advertising content.

20 . The system of claim 17 further comprising means for selecting one of the two or more Internet resources based on the advertising content.

21 . A method for folksonomy weighting comprising:

receiving two or more Internet resources associated with a folksonomy;

identifying a plurality of words and phrases in the Internet resources;

assigning a weight to one or more of the words or phrases based on the Internet resources;

storing the words or phrases in a database; and

associating each of the stored words or phrases with one or more Internet resources.

22 . The method of claim 21 further comprising:

receiving a search request;

locating one or more of the words or phrases in the database using the search request; and

generating a list of the Internet resources associated with the one or more located words or phrases.

23 . The method of claim 22 wherein generating the list of the Internet resources associated with the one or more located words or phrases comprises:

determining a weight for each of the associated Internet resources; and

listing the associated Internet resources in order of decreasing weight.