ACCOUNTING FOR AUTHORSHIP IN A WEB LOG SEARCH ENGINE

• US 20130110812A1
• Filed: 10/27/2011
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lakshmanan, Geetika T., Oberhofer, Martin A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,251,269 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/709
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for authorship accountability in a blog search engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for authorship accountability in a blog search engine is provided. The method includes receiving a search engine query specifying both query terms to query blog content and also authorship criteria for authors of blog content in respective entries of a results set returned by the search engine query. The method additionally includes evaluating the authorship criteria for each author of corresponding blog content returned by the search engine query and computing a relevance for each entry in the results set based upon the evaluated authorship criteria. Finally, the method includes presenting in order of relevance a listing of blog content corresponding to the results set.

Claims

1. A method for authorship accountability in a blog search engine, the method comprising:

receiving a search engine query specifying both query terms to query World Wide Web (“

Web”

) content (“

blog content”

) and also authorship criteria for authors of blog content in respective entries of a results set returned by the search engine query;

evaluating the authorship criteria for each author of corresponding blog content returned by the search engine query;

computing a relevance for each entry in the results set based upon the evaluated authorship criteria; and

,

presenting in order of relevance a listing of blog content corresponding to the results set.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving in the search engine query content criteria for the blog content in the respective entries of the results set returned by the search engine query;

evaluating the content criteria for blog content returned by the search engine query; and

,

computing the relevance for each entry in the results set based both upon the evaluated authorship criteria and also the evaluated content criteria.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising weighting with disparate weights the content criteria and the authorship criteria.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the authorship criteria comprises an extent to which an author of corresponding blog content is deemed authoritative.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the authorship criteria comprises an extent to which an author of corresponding blog content is deemed trustworthy.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the content criteria comprises a number of page views for corresponding blog content.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the content criteria comprises a number of tags provided in the search engine query that appear in connection with corresponding blog content.

8. A blog search engine data processing system comprising:

a host server comprising memory and at least one processor and configured for coupling to different client computing devices over a computer communications network;

a blog search engine executing in the memory of the host server and configured to query blog content according to different query terms; and

,

an authorship sensitive relevance module coupled to the blog search engine, the module comprising program code enabled upon execution in the memory of the host server to extract authorship criteria from a search engine query specifying both query terms to query World Wide Web (“

Web”

) content (“

blog content”

) and also authorship criteria for authors of blog content in respective entries of a results set returned by the search engine query, to evaluate the authorship criteria for each author of corresponding blog content returned by the search engine query, to compute a relevance for each entry in the results set based upon the evaluated authorship criteria, and to present in order of relevance a listing of blog content corresponding to the results set.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the program code of the module further extracts from the search engine query content criteria for the blog content in the respective entries of the results set returned by the search engine query, evaluates the content criteria for blog content returned by the search engine query, and computes the relevance for each entry in the results set based both upon the evaluated authorship criteria and also the evaluated content criteria.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the program code of the module further weights the content criteria and the authorship criteria.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the authorship criteria comprises an extent to which an author of corresponding blog content is deemed authoritative.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the authorship criteria comprises an extent to which an author of corresponding blog content is deemed trustworthy.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the content criteria comprises a number of page views for corresponding blog content.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the content criteria comprises a number of tags provided in the search engine query that appear in connection with corresponding blog content.

15. A computer program product for authorship accountability in a blog search engine, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code for receiving a search engine query specifying both query terms to query World Wide Web (“

Web”

) content (“

blog content”

) and also authorship criteria for authors of blog content in respective entries of a results set returned by the search engine query;

computer readable program code for evaluating the authorship criteria for each author of corresponding blog content returned by the search engine query;

computer readable program code for computing a relevance for each entry in the results set based upon the evaluated authorship criteria; and

,

computer readable program code for presenting in order of relevance a listing of blog content corresponding to the results set.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising:

computer readable program code for receiving in the search engine query content criteria for the blog content in the respective entries of the results set returned by the search engine query;

computer readable program code for evaluating the content criteria for blog content returned by the search engine query; and

,

computer readable program code for computing the relevance for each entry in the results set based both upon the evaluated authorship criteria and also the evaluated content criteria.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising computer readable program code for weighting with disparate weights the content criteria and the authorship criteria.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the authorship criteria comprises an extent to which an author of corresponding content is deemed authoritative.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein an author of corresponding content is deemed authoritative according to a number of times the content has been viewed.

20. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein an author of corresponding content is deemed authoritative according to a number of times the content has been downloaded.

21. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein an author of corresponding content is deemed authoritative according to a number of times the content has been linked to by different Web pages.