Patent Document ID: 8266140
Application ID: 12403756

Base Claim:
1. A method of acquiring tags using web search, the method comprising: receiving a search query in a search engine; processing the search query by the search engine to return and a plurality of candidate resources as a list corresponding to the search query; generating a graphical tag cloud for each of the plurality of candidate resources returned by the search engine, wherein each of the graphical tag clouds is displayed in association with a respective candidate resource; sorting the list of candidate resources; receiving a selection of a candidate resource from the list of candidate resources; extracting at least one tag from the search query; tagging the candidate resource with an extracted tag from the search query; and incrementing a hit count for only the candidate resource selected from the list of candidate resources and a hit count for at least one tag associated with the candidate resource matching the extracted tags; wherein a frequency of occurrence for each extracted tag with respect to the candidate resource selected from the list of candidate resources is maintained by increasing a corresponding counter by one.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the candidate resource is performed when a user selects the candidate resource.