SEARCH RESULT RANKING
First Claim
1. A search engine for providing a search service for searching computer accessible content items, the search engine having a query server arranged to receive a search query from a user, find content items relevant to the search query in a first corpus, and return search results to the user indicating at least some of the found content items ranked according to mentions in a second corpus, of the respective found content items.
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Abstract
A search engine (50, 35, 45,103) can find content items in a first corpus (6, 30), and return search results to the user as items ranked according to mentions in a second corpus (7, 77, 87, 30), of the respective found content items. This introduces a degree of independence or separation between the scope and type of the information for ranking and the scope and type of the content items used for responding to the search query. The second corpus can be limited to human moderated discussion sites, to provide a more reliable measure of how topical is the item. The first corpus can be limited to mobile web pages. The ranking can also involve a count of mentions in plain text referring to the respective found content items, or be according to a social distance between the user and another user, to whom the respective content item is related.
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22 Claims
- 1. A search engine for providing a search service for searching computer accessible content items, the search engine having a query server arranged to receive a search query from a user, find content items relevant to the search query in a first corpus, and return search results to the user indicating at least some of the found content items ranked according to mentions in a second corpus, of the respective found content items.
- 7. A method of providing a search service for searching computer accessible content items, the method having the steps of receiving a search query from a user, finding content items relevant to the search query in a first corpus, ranking at least some of the found content items according to mentions in a second corpus, of the respective found content items and returning ranked search results to the user.
- 11. A method of using a search service for searching computer accessible content items, the method having the steps of sending a search query from a user to a search service provider, and receiving, from the search service provider, search results in the form of content items relevant to the search query in a first corpus, ranked according to mentions in a second corpus, of the respective found content items.
- 16. A search engine for providing a search service for searching content items accessible online, the search engine having a query server arranged to receive a search query from a mobile device of a user, and return search results to the user, the search engine being arranged to find content items relevant to the search query, and derive the search results by ranking at least some of the found content items according to at least a count of mentions in plain text referring to the respective found content items.
- 19. A search engine for providing a search service for searching content items accessible online, the search engine having a query server arranged to receive a search query from a mobile device of a user, find content items relevant to the search query, and return search results to the user, such that at least those of the found content items which are from other users, or related to other users are ranked according to a social distance between the user and the respective other user in a social network.
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22. A program on a physical medium and executable by computing hardware so as to provide a search service for searching computer accessible content items, the program having a part arranged to receive a search query from a user, and a part for finding content items relevant to the search query in a first corpus, and a part arranged to return search results to the user indicating at least some of the found content items ranked according to mentions in a second corpus, of the respective found content items.
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