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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATING USER GENERATED CONTENT IN SEARCH RESULTS

  • US 20110196860A1
  • Filed: 04/19/2011
  • Published: 08/11/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for ranking web documents including user generated content (UGC) with respect to search results generated by a search engine, the method comprising:

  • recognizing a UGC data field from a web document located at a web location;

    calculating a document goodness factor for the web document, the document goodness factor measuring overall quality of the web document;

    calculating an author rank for an author of the UGC data field;

    calculating a web location rank for the web location;

    generating a rating factor for the UGC data field based on the document goodness factor, the author rank and the web location rank;

    boosting the web document in a search result set of web documents to a higher ranking above another web document by applying a damping factor in determining whether to boost the web document; and

    outputting a search result including the UGC data field positioned in the search results based on the rating factor and the damping factor.

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