Patent ID: 7428522

Claim:
A method of generating information indicative of frequency of search terms presented to at least one online search service, comprising: processing event indications, indicative of user interaction generally with front-end servers such that some of the event indications are indicative of events that are not search events and some of the event indications are indicative of events that are search events, that are being provided from the front-end servers for persistent storage to detect event indications being provided from the front-end servers for persistent storage that are indicative of search events; persistently storing the event indications that are being provided from the front-end servers and are being processed to detect event indications that are indicative of search events; processing the detected search event indications of the event indication being provided from the front-end servers for persistent storage and determining based at least in part thereon, by origin location of the events, frequency data indicative of a frequency of each of a plurality of search terms presented to the at least one online search service; and causing an indication of at least some of the frequency data to be associated with indications of event origin locations to which the frequency data corresponds.