Patent ID: 8423611

Claim:
A process for metasearching on the Internet, wherein the steps of the process are performed by a metasearch engine executing on a hardware device, the process comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a Hypertext Transfer Protocol request from a client device for the metasearch engine to send at least one search query to a plurality of unique hosts that provide access to information to be searched, wherein the Hypertext Transfer Protocol request from the client device is associated with at least one item that may be ordered from a plurality of items that may be ordered; (b) sending the at least one search query to the plurality of unique hosts in response to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol request received from the client device; (c) receiving search results from the plurality of unique hosts in response to the at least one search query sent to the plurality of unique hosts; (d) incorporating the received search results into a results list and incorporating the results list into a response; (e) causing at least one advertisement associated with the at least one item that may be ordered to be displayed in the response; (f) incorporating a uniform resource locator associated with the received search results into the response, the uniform resource locator configured to cause the client device to request details about purchasing the at least one item; (g) communicating the response from the metasearch engine to the client device.