VISITED HYPERLINK APPEARANCE BASED ON USER ACTIVITY

1 . A method for visually indicating a user's browsing history on a results page, the method comprising:

detecting an accidental selection of a result, the detecting being effected based on a length of time spent browsing a selected web page;

changing the results page to provide a visual indication distinguishing the result accidentally selected from other selected results; and

displaying the changed results page including the result accidentally selected.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the visual indication is a change in color of the result.

3 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

changing the color of the result by modifying an attribute of a web page document object model node using Javascript.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the length of time is provided by a user setting.

5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

synchronizing a user setting with a remote server.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the results page is a search results page including a plurality of hyperlinks.

7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein an order of the plurality of hyperlinks is based on the other selected results.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

storing a target web page and time of selection of the accidental selection in a database;

receiving an indication to return to the results page; and

computing a visit duration based on the stored time of selection, and a received indication to return to the result page.

9 . A system for visually indicating a user's browsing history on a results page, the system comprising:

a detector for detecting an accidental selection of a result, the detector indicating an accidental selection based on a length of time spent browsing a selected web page;

a processor for changing the results page to provide a visual indication distinguishing the result accidentally selected from other selected results; and

a display for displaying the changed results page including the result accidentally selected.

10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the visual indication is a change in color of the result.

11 . The system of claim 10 , further comprising:

the processor changing the color of the result by modifying an attribute of a web page document object model node using Javascript.

12 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the length of time is provided by a user setting.

13 . The system of claim 12 , further comprising:

synchronizing a user setting with a remote server.

14 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the results page is a search results page including a plurality of hyperlinks.

15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein an order of the plurality of hyperlinks is based on the other selected results.

16 . The system of claim 9 , further comprising:

a storage component for storing a target web page and time of selection of the accidental selection in a database;

the processor receiving an indication to return to the results page; and

the processor computing a visit duration based on the stored time of selection, and a received indication to return to the result page.

17 . A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions for performing a method for visually indicating a user's browsing history on a results page, the method comprising:

detecting an accidental selection of a result, the detecting being effected based on a length of time spent browsing a selected web page;

changing the results page to provide a visual indication distinguishing the result accidentally selected from other selected results; and

displaying the changed results page including the result accidentally selected.

18 . The computer readable medium of claim 17 , further comprising:

changing a color of the result by modifying an attribute of a web page document object model node using Javascript.

19 . The computer readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the results page is a search results page including a plurality of hyperlinks, and an order of the plurality of hyperlinks is based on the other selected results.

20 . The computer readable medium of claim 17 , further comprising:

storing a target web page and time of selection of the accidental selection in a database;

receiving an indication to return to the results page; and

computing a visit duration based on the stored time of selection, and a received indication to return to the result page.

21 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

selecting the color to change the result based at least in part on the length of time spent browsing the selected web page, wherein a first color is selected when a first length of time is spent browsing the selected web page and a second color is selected when a second length of time is spent browsing the selected web page, the second color being different than the first color.