Patent ID: 8135704

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device operated by a listing service provider, a network address input by a lister into a web form field displayed by a client computer, wherein the network address is indicative of a location of listing data on a computer network, wherein the listing data comprises at least one information item provided by the lister, wherein the listing data is in a standardized information resource definition language unique to the listing service provider, wherein the information resource definition language is an extension of extensible markup language, and wherein the listing service provider publishes listing data received from a plurality of listers; accessing, by the computing device operated by the listing service provider, the network address received from the client computer, wherein the network address is accessed by opening a computer network connection to retrieve the listing data; storing, by the computing device operated by the listing service provider, the listing data in a listing data database; and posting, by the computing device operated by the listing service provider, the listing data in a search bank hosted by the listing service provider.