The present invention provides a web-page (or web-site) search results
list which includes images from the actual web-pages or web-sites
identified in a user's search, or images associated with the actual
organization operating a web-site. This assists a user to locate
web-pages of interest or relevance to the user by providing images to
assess the relevance of web-pages identified in a search, prior to the
user having to hyperlink to the actual web-page itself. The invention
also provides a method of assisting a user to be placed in contact with
an organization, including the steps of: the user submitting a search
request from a terminal, via a computer network, to a database server,
the database server containing a database and a server-side application
used as database searching software; the database searching software
searching the database in accordance with the search request; identified
database entries being transmitted to the terminal as a search results
list, each entry of the search results list containing contact
information for the organization; at least one entry of the search
results list additionally containing visual content and/or audio content
which relates to the organization.