Computerized internet search system and method

Abstract

The present invention provides a system and method that can search social media and Internet websites, and can analyze and display the results according to a variety of criteria including virality on social media websites. The results are presented in a user friendly format such as a magazine, newsletter, newspaper, or scrapbook.

1 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a computer system, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
 at a computer system:
 receive specified search topic from a user's personal computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or other computing device or terminal; 
 for the specified search topic, search one or more social media networks, news or other websites, blogs or blogging websites and/or e-commerce sites to identify messages posted to the one or more social media or other websites related to the specified topic; 
 receive a selection of one or more attributes potentially associated with each of the identified messages from the remote computer; 
 classify each of the identified messages according to the one or more selected attributes; 
 generate a visual representation indicating a quantity of the identified messages classified according to the one or more selected attributes; and 
 cause the visual representation to be provided to the remote computer.