Patent ID: 7379949

Claim:
A method for providing category-specific electronic content, the method comprising: accessing information, which includes at least two logged query submission time attributes and at least two logged category attributes, and which is related to queries submitted to a search engine and stored in a query log; based on the accessed information, identifying relationships between individual of the logged query submission time attributes and respective logged category attributes corresponding thereto; receiving a search query; determining received query submission time attributes corresponding to the received search query; comparing the received query submission time attributes to the logged query submission time attributes in the accessed information; conditioned on determining that a first of the logged query submission time attributes corresponds to the received search query: determining that a first of the logged category attributes corresponds to the received search query based on the first logged time attribute that is determined to correspond to the received search query and based on the relationships identified between individual of the logged query submission time attributes and respective logged category attributes corresponding thereto; and identifying search results based on the determined first logged category attribute; and conditioned on determining that a second of the logged query submission time attributes, which differs from the first logged query submission time attribute, corresponds to the received search query: determining that a second of the logged category attributes corresponds to the received search query based on the second logged time attribute that is determined to correspond to the received search query and based on the relationships identified between individual of the logged query submission time attributes and respective logged category attributes corresponding thereto; and identifying search results based on the determined second logged category attribute.