Patent ID: 8489577

Claim:
A computer based method for displaying search information, the steps comprising: providing a computer; wherein said computer has a display; providing a one or more networked social websites; wherein said one or more networked social websites are accessible to said computer; providing a search engine software program that searches said one or more networked social websites; providing a digital widgetized avatar representative of a user that represents said user within said one or more networked social websites; performing, via said search engine software program, a search of said one or more networked social websites by said user; providing a search results information from said search performed of said one or more networked social websites; wherein said search results information includes one or more pieces of information related to one or more contacts of said user from said one or more networked social websites; providing a crawler software program; wherein said crawler software program crawls each of said one or more networked social websites for one or more modifications to said search results information, wherein a modified search results is returned; wherein said user controls a ratio of frequency of said searching and said crawling steps; displaying said modified search results on said display.