DETECTION OF UNDESIRABLE WEB PAGES
First Claim
1. A system for detecting artificial promotion of a resource, comprising:
- a search engine operative to index a set incoming links (“
inlinks”
) which reference the resource;
a log module coupled with the search engine and configured to store log data associated with the set of inlinks;
a partitioning module coupled with log module and operative to partition the set of inlinks into a plurality of groups of inlinks based on at least one partitioning scheme;
a statistics module coupled with the partitioning module and operative to compute a statistic associated with the inlinks within each of the plurality of groups of inlinks;
a computation module coupled with the statistics module and operative to process the computed statistic associated with the inlinks of each of the plurality of groups of inlinks and compute a metric associated with set of inlinks, wherein the metric indicates a level of uniformity of a distribution of values of the respective computed statistics among the plurality of groups of inlinks, andwherein the search engine places a list of search results, generated in response to a search query, in a pattern based on the metric.
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Abstract
A system for detecting artificial promotion of a resource, including a search engine operative to index a set incoming links (“inlinks”) which reference the resource, a log module coupled with the search engine and configured to store log data associated with the set of inlinks, a partitioning module coupled with log module and operative to partition the set of inlinks into a plurality of groups of inlinks based on at least one partitioning scheme, a statistics module coupled with the partitioning module and operative to compute a statistic associated with the inlinks within each of the plurality of groups of inlinks, and a computation module coupled with the statistics module and operative to process the computed statistic associated with the inlinks of each of the plurality of groups of inlinks and compute a metric associated with set of inlinks where the metric indicates a level of uniformity of a distribution of values of the respective computed statistics among the plurality of groups of inlinks, and where the search engine places a list of search results, generated in response to a search query, in a pattern based on the metric.
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22 Claims
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1. A system for detecting artificial promotion of a resource, comprising:
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a search engine operative to index a set incoming links (“
inlinks”
) which reference the resource;a log module coupled with the search engine and configured to store log data associated with the set of inlinks; a partitioning module coupled with log module and operative to partition the set of inlinks into a plurality of groups of inlinks based on at least one partitioning scheme; a statistics module coupled with the partitioning module and operative to compute a statistic associated with the inlinks within each of the plurality of groups of inlinks; a computation module coupled with the statistics module and operative to process the computed statistic associated with the inlinks of each of the plurality of groups of inlinks and compute a metric associated with set of inlinks, wherein the metric indicates a level of uniformity of a distribution of values of the respective computed statistics among the plurality of groups of inlinks, and wherein the search engine places a list of search results, generated in response to a search query, in a pattern based on the metric. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18)
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12. A method for detecting the artificial promotion of a resource, comprising:
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indexing a set of incoming links (“
inlinks”
) navigating to the resource;storing log data associated with the set of inlinks; partitioning the set of inlinks into a plurality of groups of inlinks based on at least one partitioning scheme; computing at least one statistic associated with the inlinks within each of the plurality of groups of inlinks; processing the at least one computed statistic associated with the inlinks of each of the plurality of groups of inlinks and computing a metric associated with the set of inlinks, wherein the metric indicates a level of uniformity of a distribution of values of the respective computed statistics among the plurality of groups of inlinks, and placing a list of search results, generated in response to a search query, in a pattern based on the metric value. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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