Patent ID: 8271486

Claim:
A method, comprising: storing a plurality of bookmark packages associated with a plurality of users in a bookmark package database on a computer readable medium, each bookmark package containing a searchable index portion and a payload portion wherein the index portion stores meta-information including tag information specified by the users, a uniform resource locator (URL) identifier, and a user identifier that identifies each of the bookmarks as belonging to at least one of the users, and wherein the payload portion is not indexed, stores structured data associated with the index portion and contains information that changes over time, and wherein the payload portion comprises a most popular description associated with the URL, responsive to determining that a popular description associated with the URL exists, most popular notes associated with the URL, responsive to determining that popular notes exist, a plurality of popular tags associated with the URL, a number of posts for a given URL, a map of user IDs associated with the posts, and a URL ID; receiving from a first user a search request to search a bookmark package database, the bookmark package database storing bookmarks for the first user and a plurality of other users; using the search request to search the index portion of the bookmark packages to locate relevant bookmarks and to generate search results; generating, using a processing device, a relevance value for each of the bookmarks, the relevance value indicating a relevance of the bookmark to the search request, the relevance value based on the position of the search query terms within the index portion of the bookmarked packages; and presenting the search results comprising a set of relevant bookmarks to a user based on the relevance values of the bookmarks, the set of relevant bookmarks comprising at least two separate lists comprising a first list consisting of the first user's relevant bookmarks and a second list consisting of the plurality of other user's relevant bookmarks.