Such a search process requires a number of steps and time.

For example, entering a Web site often is not immediate and takes some amount of time, depending on the graphics and other features provided, a significant amount of time may pass before the Web site is entered, especially if the user is accessing the Internet through a dialup connection.

After entering the site, the user must find the page or enter search queries when a search option is found for the site.

These additional steps also take time.

Most users on the Web are impatient and do not like to wait for content to be downloaded for presentation.

The amount of time and steps frustrate users exploring the Web.

Additionally, even if the user is accessing Web sites through a broad band connection, such as a cable or digital subscriber line (DSL) connection, traffic at the Web site or on nodes between the user and the Web site also may cause delays.

[0009] Therefore, it would be advantageous to have an improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for searching a Web site.

[0010] The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and computer program for searching for information.

In response to receiving an input string, the input string is parsed for a universal resource identifier and a search string, wherein the universal resource locator and the search string are separated from each other in the input string by a selected character.

The information corresponding to the search string is searched through a Web page identified by the universal resource identifier.

The information may be searched by at least one of (a) locating a search object on the Web page, and using the search object to search for the information; and (b) searching the Web page for information corresponding to the search string.

A method of distributing and executing upgrade/installation instructions as data objects.

These instructions can then be completed automatically requesting user interaction only when required.

This method would allow someone with little knowledge of the application and/or internal implementation of said application to perform an upgrade to the application.

[0001] The present invention generally relates to methods of installing, configuring, and upgrading programs within a computer system, and application programs for facilitating these methods.

More particularly, the present invention relates to a simpler method of installing, upgrading, and configuring databases using an instruction processing program.

[0002] The development of the EDVAC computer system of 1948 is often cited as the beginning of the computer era.

Since that time, computer systems have evolved into extremely complicated devices.

To be sure, today's computers are more sophisticated than early systems such as the EDVAC.

Fundamentally speaking, though, the most basic requirements evied upon computer systems have not changed.

Now, as in the past, a computer system's job is to access, manipulate, and store information.

This fact is true regardless of the type or vintage of computer system.

[0003] Many large organizations own thousands of individual computers, which are located throughout the organization's facilities.

Each individual computer manipulates information by following a detailed set of instructions, commonly called a "program" or "software."

These programs frequently require changes ("updates," "upgrades," or "fixes") to correct errors ("bugs") in the program and to add new functionality.

That is, users frequently want to change the particular set of instructions to be performed by the computer to add new features and to fix bugs.

[0004] One problem with conventional upgrading techniques is that each upgrade must be performed on each copy of the program.

Thus, if a business has 2000 copies of a particular piece of software, each upgrade procedure must be performed 2000 times.

This can require a substantial investment of time.