METHOD FOR SCORING AND RANKING SEARCH ENGINE KEYWORDS AT A WEBSITE

摘要

The invention provides a method for scoring the suitability of one or more keywords to a website search engine. For each of the one or more keywords, a search of the website is performed by the search engine, and a score is calculated indicative of the suitability of the keyword to the website in a calculation involving search results returned by the search engine. The scoring of keywords may be used to rank keywords according to their calculated scores. Ranked keywords may used in autocompletion of data input to a website search engine query box at a website. As a user enters a keyword into a search engine query box at a website, the user is presented with a menu of keywords consistent with the data being input by the user where the keywords are appear in the menu in an order determined by their rank.