Patent ID: 8666965
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A search infrastructure that services a plurality of browser applications running on computing devices of a plurality of users, the search infrastructure comprising: storage that receives activity information relating to prior activity of a first browser application of a first user of the plurality of users, the activity information identifying a first list of web pages that the first user previously visited via the first browser application, wherein at least one user interaction with copyrighted content has been removed from the activity information; web crawling infrastructure that gathers text data corresponding to a plurality of web pages hosted on an Internet, the plurality of web pages including the first list of visited web pages; and a search infrastructure that responds to first search text by producing a first search results based on correlations between the first search text and the text data of the plurality of web pages, the first search results being non-user specific search results; and the search infrastructure responds to second search text and an associated activity restriction indication indicating that search results correlating with the second search text are to be identified exclusively from the first web pages previously visited by the first user by producing for the first user a second search results based on correlations between the second search text and the text data of at least some of the first list of web pages, the second search results selected based on a search of only the first list of web pages and being user specific search results tailored for the first user.