The user requesting the search is enabled to analyze the list of excessive
hits in a manner organized through a Web content manager on the user's
display screen, and reduce the excessive hits through the elimination of
extraneous domains or subdomains captured by the search.An implementation
for reducing an excessive number of hits in a search result received at
one of the receiving display stations on the Web comprising conventional
means for displaying at said receiving display station, Web documents
received from sources on the Web, and means for conducting keyword
searches on the Web. There are means associated with the receiving
display stations for displaying the number of Web documents hit by said
keyword searches, together with means, responsive to an excessive number
of Web document hits, for enabling a user to display a hierarchical level
of the domains of the Web documents hit by said searches with a count of
the number of hits for each domain, and means enabling the user to
interactively eliminate selected domains to thereby reduce the excess
number of hits in said search.