Patent ID: 7664770
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: displaying content associated with a uniform resource locator (URL) on a graphical user interface (GUI) executing on a client computer; receiving a first search parameter for a first search engine; displaying, in a first pane of the GUI, a first search result generated by the first search engine, the first search result comprising URL links to web pages associated with the first search parameter; parsing a URL associated with the first search result from the first search engine to extract a second search parameter for a second search engine, the second search engine being a different search engine from the first search engine; communicating the second search parameter from the client computer to the second search engine to cause the second search engine to perform a search based on the second search parameter; displaying, in a second pane of the GUI, a second search result generated by the second search engine, the second search result being different from the first search result and comprising URL links to web pages associated with the second search parameter, the second pane being generated if the URL or a portion of the URL matches an entry in a predefined list, entries in the list corresponding to search engines and being configured to allow the second pane to be generated automatically for a particular search engine; automatically updating the second search result in the second pane in response to a first change in the first search result in the first pane; and automatically updating the first search result in the first pane in response to a second change in the second search result in the second pane.