Patent ID: 7899805
Filing Date: 2011-03-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of augmenting uniform resource locator (URL) queries in a search engine, the method comprising: receiving a URL query from a user; determining whether the URL query is a simple URL query or a complex URL query by: (1) parsing the URL query to extract a key query portion, and (2) determining whether the key query portion indicates a simple URL query or a complex URL query based on number of layers of path depth or path depth indicators associated with the URL query, wherein no path depth indicators indicates a simple URL query and the existence of the one or more path depth indicators indicates a complex URL query; responsive to determining that the URL query is a simple URL query, creating an augmented query by word-breaking at least a portion of the URL query and associating the augmented query with one or more simple URL ranking preferences; and responsive to determining that the URL query is a complex URL query, creating an augmented query identical to the URL query and associating the augmented query with one or more complex URL ranking preferences.