Abstract: Systems and methods for building a document or vertical index are provided in which a document comprising code for a web page on the Internet is obtained. A static graphic representation of the web page is rendered thereby building a word map that has, for each respective word in a plurality of words, areas in the representation occupied by the word. The word map having (i) an instance of a word, (ii) x- and y- coordinates of where the word appears in the representation, and (iii) a size of the area in the representation occupied by the word, is stored. A document or vertical index including the document is built such that x- and y- coordinates of the word in the representation or the size of the area in the representation occupied by the word is used as a feature of the document in the document or vertical index.

Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying a search result are provided in which a submitted search query is received from a search requester. Responsive to the search query, search results relevant to the submitted search query are retrieved from a document index, where each respective search result in at least a portion of the search results corresponds to a document in a plurality of documents. An annotated static graphic representation of a search result in the search results is displayed. The annotated static graphic representation is constructed by using a stored word map for a static graphic representation to identify each area in the static graphic representation that is occupied by a word in the submitted search query and using this information to highlight each area in the static graphic representation that is occupied by a word in the submitted search query, thereby forming the annotated static graphic representation.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for processing a plurality of documents are provided. A plurality of documents is obtained. Each respective document in the plurality of documents comprises code for a unique web page available on the Internet that corresponds to the respective document. A static graphic representation of the unique web page corresponding to a document in the plurality of documents is rendered. The rendering comprises generating a word map for the static graphic representation that comprises, for each respective word in a plurality of words in the document, each area in the static graphic representation that is occupied by the respective word. The static graphic representation of the unique web page corresponding to the document in the plurality of documents and the word map for the unique web page is stored. The rendering and storing is repeated for each document in the plurality of documents.