Patent ID: 7853719

Claim:
In a computing system, a method for providing automatic universal resource locator (URL) analysis in connection with a process implicating a URL input mechanism, comprising: receiving URL input in a computing device; determining whether the URL input is valid; when the URL input is invalid, detecting whether said input is a likely candidate for multilingual analysis, further if said input is a likely candidate for said multilingual analysis, performing intelligent rules-based analysis including said multilingual analysis for identifying the invalid aspects of the invalid URL input; and displaying a smart error page comprising a valid alternative URL obtained from at least one database of known URLs, wherein the at least one database of known URLs is a local copy of a portion of the Internet DNS URL database, the local copy updated dynamically for affirming the validity of the known URLs and for generating a blacklist of URLs to exclude socially undesirable domains, the smart error page further comprising a partial search result comprising a name of a topic related to the invalid URL input, and a link that when asserted provides an extensive listing of search results related to the invalid URL input.