Patent ID: 9684720
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method, implemented on a server having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network, the method comprising: receiving, at the server, a search query from a client device, wherein the server includes a general search engine and a plurality of vertical search engines; associating a user with the search query; determining personal information for the user; searching, by the general search engine, a general subdomain corpus for general content based on the search query; determining a vertical subdomain corpus from a plurality of vertical subdomain corpuses based on the personal information for the user; searching, by a vertical search engine of the plurality of vertical search engines, the vertical subdomain corpus to identify specialized content based on the search query, wherein the vertical search engine is controlled by an owner of the general search engine; identifying additional content based on the vertical subdomain corpus and the personal information for the user, wherein the additional content is at least one of an advertisement and a sponsored link; and presenting the specialized content and the general content with the additional content as a response to the search query.