Patent ID: 7859402

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a search query from a communications device, the search query comprising at least one search term; receiving an indication of the geographic position of the communications device; searching an index of one or more websites based on the search term, wherein the index of websites is stored in a tangible computer readable medium, wherein at least one website of the index is associated with one or more corresponding location codes, and wherein each location code corresponds to a predefined geographic region; generating a list of search results based on the search; generating a list of filtered search results by filtering the search results based at least in part on the indicated geographic position of the communications device and the location codes associated with the one or more websites, wherein the indicated geographic position of the communications device is within a predefined distance outside of a geographic region corresponding to a location code that is associated with at least one of the filtered search results; and initiating the transmission of the filtered search results to the communications device.