Patent ID: 8171007

Claim:
A method implementing a search function on a web site of interest, comprising: receiving topic specific information that identifies subject matter content of the web site of interest; generating, using a computer processor, a topic specific definition based on the topic specific information that identifies the subject matter content of the web site of interest, the topic specific definition weighting search results, returned from a first search engine, based on how related the search results are to the topic specific information in terms of subject matter content; storing the topic specific definition; generating a domain tuned search interface definition that defines a search interface; embedding the search interface on the web site of interest; receiving a search input through the embedded search interface from a user reviewing the web site of interest, the search input being separate from the stored topic specific definition; using a second search engine to return non-domain specific search results, the second search engine searching for the non-domain specific search results from web sites in addition to the web site of interest; and using a result ranking component that accesses the stored topic specific definition and returns domain tuned search results by re-ranking the non-domain specific search results from the second search engine using the stored topic specific definition.