METHOD OF MARKING AND SEARCHING DESIGNATED HOME SITES ON THE INTERNET

摘要

An Internet based system for distributing items from a source, such as goods, services or information, includes several websites associated with vendors for the items. Vendors that are authorized by the source of the item use a tag on the website indicative of such authorization. The tag is preferably included in the title page of the respective website so that when a browser is used to search for the vendors, the resulting listing of respective title pages includes the tag. If a vendor provides several services associated with the item, then several tags may be used for identifying the services.