Facebook, Inc.

Aol Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

America Online, Inc.

Localeyes Corporation

Ajaipal Singh Virdy

Lambert Arians

Resolving a query term includes receiving at least one query term from a requestor and determining a geographic location of the requestor. The geographic location of the requestor may be determined by accessing an electronic information store containing a requestor profile including geographic information about the requestor, where the requestor profile is used by more than one program. The query term is resolved against electronic information within at least one electronic information store to determine whether one or more matches exist and a result is generated that accounts for the geographic location of the requestor.

Resolving queries based on automatic determination of requestor geographic location

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.

System and method for geographically classifying business on the world-wide web

System and method for identifying the owner of a document on the world-wide web

System and method for indexing documents on the world-wide web

System and method for classifying an electronic document

One or more embodiments of the disclosure include systems and methods for obtaining information from electronic documents (e.g., web pages). Example embodiments include retrieving an electronic document, parsing the electronic document to identify multiple portions of the electronic document, and comparing the portions to identify information about the electronic document, such as the owner of the electronic document. Further, the identified information can be associated with the electronic document within a database.

System and method for identifying an owner of a web page on the World-Wide Web

System and method for determining a homepage on the world-wide web

System and method for geographically organizing and classifying businesses on the world-wide web

Generating a keyword resolution includes receiving one or more keywords from a requestor and determining a geographic location to be associated with a resolution of at least one of the keywords against electronic information within at least one electronic information store. The keywords are resolved against the electronic information based, at least in part, on the geographic location and at least one matching result revealed through the resolution of the keywords based, at least in part, on the geographic location associated therewith is made perceivable.

Geographically resolving a keyword query

System and method for automatically organizing and classifying businesses on the World-Wide Web

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