Iac Search and Media, Inc.

Creighton W Chong

Jeffrey Alan Joseph Sidlosky

Para Kanagasabai Segaram

Inessa Obenhuber, Legal Representative

Methods and apparatuses for providing an Internet (Web) search functionality to a target application. The Web functionality allows a target application to access and use the Web search functionality without modification of the target application. For one embodiment, information communicated between the target application and the operating system, or other applications, is intercepted and evaluated. A determination is made as to whether or not to implement the Web search functionality within the target application based upon the intercepted information. For one embodiment of the invention, a Web search capability is implemented with applications to which such capability is deemed beneficial. For one embodiment of the invention, the added Web search functionality automates the process of saving selected web content to the user's personal computer, locating the saved Web content on the personal computer, and appending the saved content into the target application product.

Methods and systems providing desktop search capability to software application

The generation a search query based on information stored on a storage medium is described. According to one embodiment of the invention, search criteria is entered to perform a search of a storage medium of a client computer. The search of the storage medium determines a web search criteria. The client computer provides search results based on the web search criteria.

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Creighton W Chong