System and method for geographically classifying business on the world-wide web
View Patent ↗A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database. An intelligent geographic- and business topic-specific resource discovery system facilitates local commerce on the World-Wide Web and also reduces search time by accurately isolating information for end-users. Distinguishing and classifying business pages on the Web by business categories using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes is achieved through an automatic iterative process.
1. A method comprising:
traversing, by an indexer robot, one or more URLs to identify content associated with the one or more of URLs;
storing, within a URL index, the one or more URLs and the identified content, wherein the identified content is associated within the URL index with the one or more URLs;
utilizing, by the indexer robot, the identified content to query a first third-party database for address information associated with the one or more URLs;
storing, within the URL index, the address information from the first third-party database, in association with the one or more URLs;
utilizing, by the indexer robot, the address information to query a second third-party database for a company name associated with the address information; and
maintaining the company name in the URL index in association with the address information and the one or more URLs when the company name from the second third-party database matches a company name identified from the indexer robot traversing the one or more URLs.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising extracting one or more domain names from the one or more URLs in the URL index.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first third-party database includes domain names associated with the address information.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein utilizing the identified content to query the first third-party database comprises using the extracted one or more domain names to query the first third-party database.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the address information associated with the one or more URLs comprises company name information.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second third-party database comprises a listing of company names associated with address information.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising utilizing the address information to identify one or more additional geographic locations associated with the one or more URLs.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a query comprising a geographic location component.
9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising querying the one or more geographic locations associated with the one or more URLs within the URL index using the geographic location component.
10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising identifying one or more resultant URLs having geographic locations that are associated with the geographic location component of the received query.
11. A method comprising:
generating a URL index comprising a plurality of URLs;
comparing, by an indexer robot, the URL index to a third-party database to identify one or more common URLs between the URL index and the third-party database;
querying, by the indexer robot, the third-party database for information associated with the one or more common URLs;
receiving, by the indexer robot, from the third-party database, information in response to the query;
storing, within the URL index, the information in association with the one or more common URLs;
receiving a query comprising a geographic location component comprising at least one of a zip code or a phone number area code;
generating a result of one or more URLs from the URL index matching the received query; and
outputting the result.
12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising querying the URL index using the geographic location component.
13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising identifying one or more resultant URLs having geographic locations that are associated with the geographic location component of the received query.
14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the information associated with the one or more common URLs comprises city name information.
15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the information associated with the one or more common URLs comprises zip code information.
16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the information associated with the one or more common URLs comprises phone number area code information.
17. A system comprising:
at least one processor; and
a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
generate a URL index comprising one or more URLs;
extract, by an indexer robot, a domain name for each of the one or more URLs;
query, by the indexer robot, a third-party database for additional information associated with each domain name;
receive, by the indexer robot, from the third-party database, additional information in response to the query;
store, within the URL index, the additional information in association with the one or more URLs;
receive a query comprising a geographic location component comprising at least one of a zip code or a phone number area code;
generate a result of one or more URLs from the URL index matching the received query; and
output the result.
18. The system of claim 17 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the system to associates a geographic location with each domain name.
19. The system of claim 17 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the system to identify at least one resultant URL associated with a geographic location that matches the geographic location component.