KR100906618B1 - Custom link search method and system - Google Patents

Abstract

A user-defined link retrieval method and system are disclosed. The user-defined link searching method includes a server receiving link information including a keyword, information on a start page corresponding to the keyword, and information on a destination page corresponding to the keyword, and the server including the keyword. Receiving a search result request for a search term from a first terminal, and the server includes information about a start page corresponding to the keyword and information about a destination page corresponding to the keyword in response to the search result request. And transmitting the link search result to the first terminal.

Description

Method and system for user define link search}

The present invention relates to an information retrieval method, and more particularly, to a method and system for retrieving more efficient and high quality information by using a connection structure of information predefined by specific users when retrieving information from the Internet. will be.

With the development of computers, the spread of telecommunication networks represented by the Internet has a great impact on our society as a whole. As the so-called offline work gradually shifted to the Internet, that is, online, the Internet became a living. For example, to collect information, you had to go to a library, review a large number of books, newspapers, magazines, etc., and collect and gather the necessary information. Now, you can easily get the data you want by entering keywords, etc., through the computer or terminal connected to the Internet.

According to the survey, as of March 2007, 83% of Internet users use the Internet for information retrieval. As such, the number of Internet users for information retrieval continues to increase.

However, the search service is monopolized by some of the top Internet portal companies in Korea. In addition, the search service provided by these portal companies can solve problems such as searching the vast amount of data only by a predetermined algorithm or classifying the search result based on the uncertain user's action such as the number of views and recommendation. Have

In addition, since portal companies do not share information with each other, it is difficult to access sufficient information, and information searchers who request information due to the search advertisement policy such as placing the contents for commercial purpose in the search results first ( Or, the information consumer) is difficult to access the desired information, even if you can access even if you have to spend a lot of time to find information.

For example, in some portal companies that provide a search service, an information consumer may input a search keyword to obtain desired information. The search service presents hundreds of search results, but most of the results placed at the top of the search results are promotion pages according to commercial advertising policies.

In addition, only the search results presented by the search service may not sufficiently know the contents of the web page corresponding to the search results. That is, an information consumer selects a search result (e.g., clicks), accesses a corresponding web page, reviews the contents of the web page directly, and repeats the action of accessing another search result if the desired information cannot be found. do.

Therefore, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to shorten the path to obtain high-quality information by information consumers who previously searched for information or a marketer defining a path to obtain high-quality information professionally. It is to provide a method and a system that can be done.

In addition, the present invention provides a method and system for providing meta-information such as information paths and number of inquiries to the information consumer.

In order to accomplish the above technical problem, a method of searching for a user-defined link includes: receiving, by a server, link information including a keyword, information about a start page corresponding to the keyword, and information about a destination page corresponding to the keyword, A server receiving a search result request for a search term including the keyword from a first terminal, and the server responding to the search result request for information about a start page corresponding to the keyword and an object corresponding to the keyword And transmitting a link search result including information about the page to the first terminal.

The link search result may be represented in a graphical user interface.

The graphical user interface may be represented by a graph, each of the start page and the destination page may be represented by a vertex, and a link between the start page and the destination page may be represented by an edge. have.

The shape of the vertex may be determined based on at least one of a search rank, a search count, or a recommendation number of the start page or the destination page corresponding to the vertex.

The shape of the edge may be determined according to the amount of traffic between the start page and the destination page.

When the vertex is selected from the first terminal, the first terminal may be connected to the start page or the destination page corresponding to the selected vertex.

The information on the start page and the information on the destination page may include the start page and the universal resource locator (URL) of the destination page, respectively.

The link information may further include evaluation information on the start page or the destination page. The user defined link retrieval method may be stored in a computer readable recording medium.

The user-defined link search system for solving the technical problem is a link information collection module for receiving link information including a keyword, information on the start page corresponding to the keyword, and information on the destination page corresponding to the keyword. And when receiving a search result request for a search term including the keyword from the first terminal, in response to the search result request, information about a start page corresponding to the keyword and information about a destination page corresponding to the keyword. And a link search processing module for transmitting a link search result to the first terminal.

The user-defined link search system further includes a GUI processing module for presenting the link search result in a graphical user interface, wherein the link search processing module is the link search result expressed in the graphical user interface by the GUI processing module. May be transmitted to the first terminal.

The graphical user interface may be represented by a graph, each of the start page and the destination page may be represented by a vertex, and a link between the start page and the destination page may be represented by an edge.

The user-defined link search system further includes a tracker that collects at least one of a search rank, a hit number, or a recommendation number of at least one of the start page or the target page, and the vertex form is in the vertex collected by the tracker. It may be determined based on at least one of a search rank, a search count, or a recommendation count of the corresponding start page or the destination page.

The tracker further collects information on traffic between the start page and the destination page, and the shape of the edge may be determined according to a user-defined link search determined according to the amount of traffic between the start page and the destination page.

As described above, the user-defined link search method and system according to an embodiment of the present invention have an effect of providing a platform for increasing the reliability of the search result through participation of users.

In addition, since searching through collective intelligence evaluates and aggregates the search results of many people, the accuracy of the information is higher than that of a mechanical search that searches for information by some algorithms or combinations of algorithms.

In addition, by using a measure of information trusted by the information consumer as predetermined meta information, and the meta information is easily illustrated by the information consumer (e.g., a graphical user interface), the information consumer can access unnecessary information. At the same time, it is possible to reduce the information acquisition path and to obtain high quality information.

In order to fully understand the present invention, the operational advantages of the present invention, and the objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention and the contents described in the accompanying drawings.

In addition, in the present specification, when one component 'transmits' data to another component, the component may directly transmit the data to the other component, or through at least one other component. Means that the data may be transmitted to the other component.

On the contrary, when one component 'directly transmits' data to another component, it means that the data is transmitted from the component to the other component without passing through the other component.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a user-defined link search system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a user-defined link search system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a server 100. The server 100 includes a link information collection module 110 and a link search processing module 120. In addition, the server 100 may further include at least one of a GUI processing module 130, a tracker 140, a link DB (DataBase, 150), or a graphical user interface (GUI) DB 160.

In the present specification, the module may mean a combination of hardware and / or software for performing an operation or function described in the present specification.

The link information collection module 110 receives link information from a marketer terminal 200. The link information includes a keyword, information about a start page corresponding to the keyword, and information about a destination page corresponding to the keyword.

Here, the marketer may mean a user who defines link information in order to perform a user-defined link search method according to an embodiment of the present invention. For example, the marketer may be an experienced information consumer, an intellectual, an advertising agent, or a person who professionally defines link information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

For example, the marketer may be an information consumer searching for keyword A. Then, the marketer may view the search results searched using the keyword A as a search word, and may select a first web page that is at least one search result among the search results. The marketer accesses a first web page, searches for content included in the first web page, and uses a myriad of hyperlinks included in the first web page for information desired by the marketer. 2 You can access web pages. In this way, the marketer can move the web page until he finds the information he wants, and eventually the marketer can find the information he wants in the third web page.

Then, the marketer may define information about the first web page (eg, the URL of the first web page) with respect to a keyword A as information about a start page, and information about the third web page (eg, , The URL of the third web page) may be defined as information on the target page.

In the user-defined link retrieval method according to an embodiment of the present invention, other users may use the information retrieval experience for the keyword A of the marketer. That is, when another information consumer searches for the keyword A, the user-defined link retrieval system 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention receives the information about the start page and the destination page defined by the marketer and the other information. It can be provided to the consumer.

Then, the other information consumer can know that at least the keyword A has searched the start page for the keyword A, and finally, the quality information for the keyword A can be obtained from the destination page. That is, the other information consumer can omit the access to the second web pages that the marketer has accessed.

The link information may be stored in the link DB 150. The link DB 150 may include at least one table, and may further include a separate DBMS (Database Management System) for searching, storing, and managing information stored in the link DB 150. In addition, it may be implemented in various ways such as a linked-list, a tree, a relational DB, and includes all data storage media and data structures capable of storing the link information.

In order to input the link information, the user-defined link search system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention may provide a predetermined interface.

4 illustrates an example of a user interface for defining link information to perform a user-defined link search method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, when a marketer selects a predetermined interface (eg, a button-type interface, not shown) while connected to a specific web page, the marketer may input a keyword and start the specific web page. page). Then, the marketer may automatically transmit the information about the specific web page (eg, URL information) to the link information collection module 110 without directly inputting the information about the specific web page. Of course, the destination page may be defined in a similar manner.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, the user-defined link search system according to an embodiment of the present invention further provides the marketer with evaluation information of each web page (eg, whether it is business or meta information corresponding to the name of the vertex). Of course, it is possible to further provide various interfaces for input.

Referring back to FIG. 1, the marketer terminal 200 may include all data processing apparatuses capable of accessing the Internet and searching for information, and may be variously used such as a computer, a PDA, a mobile phone, a notebook, and the like.

In addition, the marketer terminal 200 may be the same as the first terminal 300 to be described later. That is, the marketer defining the link information and the information consumer consuming the defined link information may be the same.

The link search processing module 120 may provide a link information defined by the marketer to an information consumer. That is, the link search processing module 120 may receive a search result request for the search word including the keyword from the first terminal.

Then, in response to the search result request, the link search processing module 120 may generate a link search result including information about a start page corresponding to the keyword defined by the marketer and information about a destination page corresponding to the keyword. It can be transmitted to the first terminal.

The link search result may include information about the start page (eg, the URL of the start page) and information about the destination page (eg, the URL of the destination page).

It is sufficient to include, and the form may vary.

For example, the link search result may be provided in a text format, and in some cases, the link search result may be provided to an information consumer in various forms such as a video and an image.

However, the user-defined link search method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in the case of providing the link search results to the information consumer in the form of a GUI, for example, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

For example, the user-defined link search system 1 may further include a GUI processing module 130 for representing the link search result in a graphical user interface.

The link search processing module 120 may transmit the link search result expressed by the GUI processing module 130 to the graphical user interface (hereinafter referred to as 'GUI') to the first terminal.

The GUI may be various, such as a two-dimensional GUI or a three-dimensional GUI, the shape may also vary. However, in the embodiment of the present invention, the GUI is described as an example represented by a graph, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto. In addition, of course, the graph may be represented as a two-dimensional or three-dimensional graph.

When the GUI is represented by a graph, each of the start page and the destination page may be represented by a vertex, and a link between the start page and the destination page may be represented by an edge.

In the present specification, the graph refers to a graph defined in graph theory of computer science, and the graph may be composed of vertices and edges. Shapes of the vertices and edges may vary.

2 illustrates an example in which a link search result is expressed in a graph in a user-defined link search method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the link search result represented by the graph may include at least one vertex 10, 11, and at least one edge 20, 21, and the like.

For example, the marketer may search for the singer 'Yoonha' as a keyword, define a web page corresponding to the vertex 10 as a start page, and define a web page corresponding to the vertex 11 as the destination page. Of course, the marketer or another marketer may define another page for the 'yunha' as a start page or a destination page, respectively. Then, the link information defined by at least one marketer may be represented by a graph as shown in FIG. 2. Of course, the name of the vertex (eg, 'Yunha's No. 1 song video' of the vertex 10) may be input by the marketer, and the marketer may input various evaluation information of the vertex (eg, tag, recommendation degree, etc.). May be further included in the link information.

Thereafter, when the information consumer searches 'Yunha' as a keyword through the first terminal 300, a graph as shown in FIG. 2 may be provided to the first terminal 300.

The first terminal 300 may also include any data processing device capable of accessing the Internet and searching for information, and may vary from a computer, a PDA, a mobile phone, a laptop, and the like.

In addition, the user-defined link search system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include a tracker 140. The tracker 140 may collect at least one of a search rank, a search count, or a recommendation count of at least one of the start page and the destination page.

The tracker 140 may generally serve as a variety of commercially available log information collectors or state information collectors of web pages. For example, it may perform a role of collecting entry page information of the start page or the destination page, collecting exit page information, keyword analysis, or counter.

In addition, the tracker 140 may serve to collect various ranking information (eg, number of views, number of recommendations, search rankings) provided by some portal search services.

Therefore, the various information collected by the tracker 140 is reflected in the graph so that an information consumer can easily identify the various information.

For example, the shape (eg, size) of the vertex may be determined based on at least one of a search rank, a search count, or a recommendation count of the start page or the destination page corresponding to the vertex collected by the tracker. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the size of the vertex 10 may be set to be larger as the search rank, the number of search, or the number of recommendations is increased.

A criterion for determining the size of the vertex 10 may further include various information according to an implementation example, as well as the search rank, the number of views, or the number of recommendations, and each criterion determines the size of the vertex 10. May be set in various ways. Of course, the size of the vertex 10 is not changed according to the reference, but other characteristics (eg, shape, color, etc.) of the vertex 10 may be set to change.

After all, the information consumer has defined that the web page with the largest vertex among the graphs shown in the link search results is defined by marketers as including the most in the link information, or contains the highest quality information by various criteria such as search ranking and views. I can think of it. Thus, the information consumer can easily obtain the experience of other information consumers or linker information of the marketer.

Vertices may be expressed in various forms, depending on the implementation. For example, the color may vary depending on the nature of the web page (eg, commercial web page, personal blog, informational web page, etc.). Alternatively, the shape of the vertices (eg, ellipses and polygons) may be set differently.

The nature of the web page for determining the format of the vertices may also be included in the link information as evaluation information of the web page.

In addition, the tracker 140 may further collect information on the traffic between the start page and the destination page, and the thickness of the edge may be determined according to the amount of traffic between the start page and the destination page.

For example, when the information consumer connected to the vertex 10 is connected to the vertex 11 or the information consumer connected to the vertex 11 is connected to the vertex 10, the tracker 140 is connected to the vertex 10. Traffic between the web page corresponding to the vertex 11 and the vertex 11 can be collected. Therefore, the edge 20 connecting the vertex 10 and the vertex 11 may be represented in bold.

Of course, depending on the amount of traffic, the edge 21 can be represented thinner. Depending on the implementation, other properties of the edges may vary than the thickness of the edges. For example, depending on the amount of traffic, the color of the edge may be represented in a more red color. That is, it is sufficient if the shape of the edge can be changed according to the amount of traffic.

As a result, the information consumer can easily grasp the information acquisition path of the other information consumer according to the shape of the edge. In addition, many information consumers can assume that the route taken may include better quality information.

The user-defined link search system 1 extracts a link search result corresponding to a search term requested from the first terminal 300 among link information stored in the link DB 150, and extracts the extracted link search result. And transmit the GUI information (eg, information on the graph) corresponding to the link search result expressed by the GUI processing module 130 to the first terminal 300. have.

However, according to an implementation example, the user-defined link search system 1 may further include a GUI DB 160, in which the GUI DB 160 corresponds to link information stored in the link DB 150. GUI information may be generated and stored in advance by the GUI processing module 130. Therefore, when a specific search word is searched for from the first terminal 300, GUI information corresponding to the requested search word may be directly extracted from the GUI DB 160 and transmitted to the first terminal 300.

Meanwhile, when the information consumer provided with the graph illustrated in FIG. 2 selects (eg, clicks) each vertex, the first terminal may be connected to a web page corresponding to the selected vertex. To this end, each vertex may include information on a hyper-link, and the information on the hyperlink may be included in the link information. That is, the link information may include a URL (Universal Resource Locator) of the start page and the destination page.

3 shows an example of a user interface for performing a user-defined link search method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, a predetermined program for performing a user-defined link search method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be provided in an add-on form of an internet browser. In addition, as shown in FIG. 3, a toolbar-type interface may be provided.

For example, the information consumer may perform a user-defined link search according to an embodiment of the present invention by inputting a search word in a toolbar as shown in FIG. 3 when the Internet browser is activated even when connected to any web page. have.

As a result, various search results as shown in FIG. 3 may be provided. In addition, certain interfaces 30, 31, 32 may be provided that provide various functions.

For example, if the link interface 30 is selected, the user can directly go to a specific web page related to the search word (eg, a web page having the largest vertex size in the graph shown in FIG. 2).

In addition, when the map interface 31 is selected, a link search result (eg, a graph as shown in FIG. 2) corresponding to the search word may be provided in a GUI form.

In addition, when the tag interface 32 is selected, various tag information related to the search word may be provided.

The user-defined link retrieval method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. Computer-readable recording media include all kinds of recording devices that store data that can be read by a computer system. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, hard disk, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like, and also in the form of carrier waves (e.g., transmission over the Internet). It also includes implementations. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. And functional programs, codes and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily inferred by programmers in the art to which the present invention belongs.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS In order to better understand the drawings cited in the detailed description of the invention, a brief description of each drawing is provided.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a user-defined link search system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 illustrates an example in which a link search result is expressed in a graph in a user-defined link search method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 shows an example of a user interface for performing a user-defined link search method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 illustrates an example of a user interface for defining link information to perform a user-defined link search method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (14)

Receiving, by the server, link information including a keyword, information about a start page corresponding to the keyword, and information about a destination page corresponding to the keyword; Receiving, by the server, a search result request for a search word including the keyword from a first terminal; And Transmitting, by the server, a link search result including information on a start page corresponding to the keyword and information on a destination page corresponding to the keyword, to the first terminal in response to the search result request, Information about the start page and the destination page, The user-defined link search method comprising a URL (Universal Resource Locator) of the start page and the destination page, respectively. The method of claim 1, wherein the link search result is: User-defined link retrieval method represented in a graphical user interface. The method of claim 2, wherein the graphical user interface, Is represented as a graph, And each of the start page and the destination page is represented by a vertex, and a link between the start page and the destination page is represented by an edge. The method of claim 3, wherein the form of the vertex, The user-defined link search method is determined based on at least one of the ranking, the number of views, or the number of recommendations of the start page or the destination page corresponding to the vertex. The method of claim 3, wherein the shape of the edge, The user-defined link search method determined by the amount of traffic between the start page and the destination page. The method of claim 3, wherein when the vertex is selected from the first terminal, And the first terminal is connected to the start page or the destination page corresponding to the selected vertex. delete The method of claim 1, wherein the link information, Custom link search method further comprising the evaluation information for the start page or the destination page. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 6 and 8. A link information collection module for receiving link information including a keyword, information on a start page corresponding to the keyword, and information on a destination page corresponding to the keyword; And When a search result request for a search term including the keyword is received from the first terminal, the first terminal includes information about a start page corresponding to the keyword and a destination page corresponding to the keyword in response to the search result request. A link search processing module for transmitting a link search result to the first terminal, Information about the start page and the destination page, A user-defined link retrieval system comprising a URL (Universal Resource Locator) of the start page and the destination page, respectively. The system of claim 10, wherein the user-defined link search system comprises: A GUI processing module for representing the link search result in a graphical user interface, And the link search processing module transmits the link search result expressed by the GUI processing module to the first terminal to the first terminal. The method of claim 11, wherein the graphical user interface, Is represented as a graph, And each of the start page and the destination page is represented by a vertex, and a link between the start page and the destination page is represented by an edge. The system of claim 12, wherein the user-defined link search system comprises: Further comprising a tracker for collecting at least one of the ranking, views, or recommendations of at least one of the start page or the destination page, The form of the vertex is a user-defined link retrieval system is determined based on at least one of the ranking, the number of views, or the number of recommendations of the start page or the destination page corresponding to the vertex collected by the tracker. The method of claim 13, wherein the tracker, Collecting more information about the traffic between the start page and the destination page; And the shape of the edge is determined by a user-defined link search determined by the amount of traffic between the start page and the destination page.

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