Patent ID: 7711682

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising searching hypertext based multilingual Web information when searching on a network for keywords to be queried, the step of searching comprising steps of: receiving keywords input by a user via a searching interface; transferring the keywords to an analysis evaluation module for computing similarity between the keywords and hypertext information in a hypertext database; using the analysis evaluation module for matching the keywords based on index data stored in a Web repository and performing an analysis of hyperlinks; conducting a comprehensive evaluation based on the computing results of hypertext information retrieving and hyperlink analysis; ranking hyperlinks according to the correlativity of the hyperlink text with the keywords; and returning to the user a ranked search result; wherein the hypertext similarity with respect to the keyword to be queried is determined as follows: S ⁡ ( d i , Q ) = ∑ j = 1 n ⁢ d ij - q j ∑ j = 1 n ⁢ d ij 2 - ∑ j = 1 n ⁢ q j 2 where d i represents an i th hypertext in a Web page d, d ij represents a j'th dimension of the i'th hypertext, q j represents the j'th dimension of a keyword Q, and S represents a hypertext similarity d i with said keyword Q.