Patent ID: 7447688

Claim:
In a Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received Web documents accessible from database sources on the Web, a method for reducing an excessive number of hits in a search result received at one of the receiving display stations comprising: displaying at said receiving display stations, received Web documents received from said sources; conducting keyword searches on the Web; displaying at said receiving display stations the number of Web documents hit by said keyword searches; responsive to a number of Web document hits predetermined to be excessive, enabling a user to display a hierarchical level of the domains of the Web documents hit by said searches with a count of the number of hits for each domain; enabling the user to interactively eliminate selected domains to thereby reduce the excess number of hits in said search; storing, in association with said receiving display station, a search context including said eliminated selected domains wherein said selected domains may be eliminated from subsequent searches.