Apparatus and method for controllably retrieving and/or filtering content from the world wide web with a profile based search engine

摘要

A method of controllably retrieving information from the World Wide Web or from a given database in cooperation with a user's composite profile, comprising the steps of: (a) prompting a user to respond to at least one profile query; (b) generating a composite user profile from response(s) to said at least one query; (c) generating at least one portal having one or more records of information from a central repository; (d) matching said composite user profile with said at least one portal; (e) entering at least one search or retrieval instruction; and (f) controllably retrieving one or more records of information from said at least one matched portal in response to said at least one search instruction.