22. A method for real-time online search processing over inter-connected computer networks, the method comprises the steps of: a. maintaining in an offline database information for a plurality of vendor sites, including vendor sites in different native languages, over inter-connected computer networks, the information includes URLs, search form URLs, description of domains, and vendor descriptions, wherein the vendor descriptions include generalized rules about how product information is organized on each of the vendor sites; b. processing parameters for a price comparison request, received from an online user in one of the different native languages, for a desired product using the information maintained in the offline database, including identifying from the vendor descriptions vendor sites which may have price information relevant to the price comparison request; c. extracting real-time price and product information from the identified ones of the plurality of vendor sites from information received in response to search requests constructed using the information maintained in the offline data base for each of the identified vendor sites, including a search form URL, and submitted directly to the identified vendor sites, wherein the extracted price and product information are in the one of the different native languages; and d. displaying the extracted price and product information to the user.
23. The method of claim 22 , wherein the step of receiving a price comparison request further comprises the step of receiving from the user at least one search parameter and an identification of at least one online vendor on said computer network; and further wherein the extracting step includes the steps of i. posting a request using the processed parameters to at least one of the plurality of vendors online, in real-time; and ii. retrieving data related to the price and product information from search results obtained in response to the posting step; iii. sorting the retrieved data by price; and iv. displaying processed data for the desired product from at least one of the plurality of vendors.