Patent ID: 7085753

Claim:
A method for enabling an Internet search according to search criterion and display of search results on a user's display, comprising: pre-indexing by a search engine provider sites of the Internet, wherein said preindexing comprises: using a spider program, accessing as many web sites as possible, determining all links pointing into and out from each web site, and forming a map of said links; analyzing the map of said links and assuming that web sites pointing to other web sites have a common denominator with said other web sites, dividing the web sites into several relational groups according to their common denominator; labeling each relational group by giving to it a suitable name using text based analysis; upon searching by a user for web sites that sustain the search criterion, displaying on the user's display the search results divided into said several relational groups as a pictorial representation reflecting a relational structure of various relational groups sa determined by the pre-indexing.