Patent ID: 7287021

Claim:
A method for searching information on the Internet, comprising the steps of: providing a computer linked to the Internet; accessing directly at least one search assistant by a user via a web browser on the computer linked to the Internet to search for information on the Internet, wherein the at least one search assistant is human and a specialist in searching on the Internet; conducting a dialogue between the user with the at least one human search assistant over the Internet and in real time to formulate a first information request; and transmitting the first information request over the Internet to the at least one human search assistant; wherein the at least one human search assistant includes one or more head human search assistants, the one or more head search assistants having below them a number of specialized adjunct human search assistants who each is specialized in one or more fields; directing the first information request to an appropriate one of the specialized adjunct human search assistants via Internet, said directing is based on the one or more head human search assistants; reformulating the first information request into an adapted information request associated with the first information request, said reformulating is based on the one of the specialized adjunct human search assistants and said conducting; applying the adapted information request on at least one search robot for accessing information on the Internet related to the first information request by the at least one human search assistant, the adapted information request being placed through an Internet Service Provider; communicating search results obtained by the at least one search robot to the at least one human search assistant via a web browser, said communicating is based on the Internet Service Provider; and offering a user a selection of the search results in order for the user to make a first information selection based on the first information request displayed via the web browser, said offering is based on the at least one human search assistant.