DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON DOCUMENT CONTENT UPDATE
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1. A method, comprising:
- determining a measure of how a content of a document changes over time;
generating a score for the document based, at least in part, on the measure of how the content of the document changes over time; and
ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.
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Abstract
A system may determine a measure of how a content of a document changes over time, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the measure of how the content of the document changes over time, and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.
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34 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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determining a measure of how a content of a document changes over time;
generating a score for the document based, at least in part, on the measure of how the content of the document changes over time; and
ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A system, comprising:
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means for determining an update frequency associated with a document;
means for determining an update amount associated with the document;
means for generating a score for the document as a function of both the update frequency and the update amount; and
means for ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method, comprising:
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determining a first rate of change in a content of a document in a first time period;
determining a second rate of change in the content of the document in a second time period;
comparing the first rate of change and the second rate of change to determine whether there is an increase or a decrease in the rate of change in the content of the document;
generating a score for the document based, at least in part, on whether there is an increase or a decrease in the rate of change in the content of the document; and
ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.
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30. A method, comprising:
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receiving a search query;
performing a search based, at least in part, on the search query to identify a group of search result documents;
determining a date on which a content changed for each of the search result documents in a set of the search result documents in the group;
determining an average date-of-change of the search result documents in the set of search result documents based, at least in part, on the determined dates;
generating a score for a search result document in the set of search result documents based, at least in part, on a difference between the determined date associated with the search result document and the average date-of-change of the search result documents in the set of search result documents; and
ranking the search result document with regard to at least one other one of the search result documents based, at least in part, on the score.
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31. A method, comprising:
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determining a measure of how anchor text associated with a link pointing to a document changes over time;
generating a score for the document based, at least in part, on the measure of how the anchor text associated with the link pointing to the document changes over time; and
ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33)
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34. A system, comprising:
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means for determining whether a topic associated with a document changes over time;
means for generating a score for the document based, at least in part, on the whether the topic associated with the document changes; and
means for ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.
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