Method, system, and computer program product for searching for, navigating among, and ranking of documents in a personal web
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1. A method for searching electronic material stored in a computing environment, comprising:
- determining an undirected, weighted link between at least two documents, based on similarity;
determining a directed, weighted link between said at least two documents; and
calculating a weight each of said at least two documents.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for a personal search engine that includes a hybrid web composed of: the similarity web, and directed hyperlinks. Components include a parser (extracting words from documents); a text relevance analyzer; a link analysis method; the similarity web; a similarity analyzer; and hyperlinks. Other components include a navigation window; and FQSs. The combination of all the above may be incorporated into a working personal search engine.
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1. A method for searching electronic material stored in a computing environment, comprising:
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determining an undirected, weighted link between at least two documents, based on similarity;
determining a directed, weighted link between said at least two documents; and
calculating a weight each of said at least two documents. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83)
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84. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium including instructions for searching electronic material stored in a computing environment, said instructions comprising instructions for:
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determining an undirected, weighted link between at least two documents, based on similarity;
determining a directed, weighted link between said at least two documents; and
calculating a weight each of said at least two documents. - View Dependent Claims (85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90)
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91. A search device configured to search electronic material stored in a computing environment, comprising:
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means for determining an undirected, weighted link between at least two documents, based on similarity;
means for determining a directed, weighted link between said at least two documents; and
means for calculating a weight each of said at least two documents. - View Dependent Claims (92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97)
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