Conducting a preliminary world wide web search for attributes of a product through predetermined search queries to predetermined database web sites to provide a purchase profile of the product offered for sale by a web page

摘要

The potential purchaser of a product from a Web page on the Web is provided with a purchase profile of the product which is quicker and easier to obtain and provides more comprehensive data about the products and their sources than any information that a user may obtain about products purchased over the counter from real world stores and like businesses. An implementation is provided for storing at a Web receiving station, a set of predetermined search queries respectively to each of a set of Web database sites for data related to attributes of a selected product and responsive to a selection of a product for sending said search queries to said Web database sites to thereby provide a purchase profile of the product. The sending of the search queries may be set up so as to be automatically responsive to the selection of the product. ;The queries are set up so as to trigger very specific or “narrow band” searches to very specific predetermined databases for very specific information. These functions may be carried out in a Web browser at the user's receiving display station or Web station.