Patent ID: 7933917

Claim:
A method for providing a personalized search service, the method comprising: receiving a search query and cookie information from a user terminal without performing a user identification process by maintaining a limited number of the received cookie information, wherein the search query comprises a query keyword; identifying at least one searched cookie information comprising a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) which corresponding to the query keyword, and selecting the identified cookie information, wherein the selected cookie information is determined by at least one of a number of times of selections, a selection point in time at which the most recent URL corresponding to the identified cookie information being selected by the user or any combinations thereof that are managed by a server; concurrently generating a personalized search result and a general search result, wherein the personalized search result comprises identified cookie information list based upon the URL of the identified cookie information corresponding to the search query, and a general search result list comprises at least one general search result associated with the received query keyword; and providing the user terminal with a personalized search result list by arranging the personalized search result list with higher rank than the general search result list.