Personalizing anchor text scores in a search engine
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method of determining a personalized ranking of a document that satisfies a set of query terms, comprising:
- determining an information retrieval score for the document based on its content and the set of query terms;
identifying a set of source documents that have links to the document and that have anchor text satisfying a predefined requirement with respect to the set of query terms;
calculating personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents according to a set of user-specific parameters;
accumulating a personalized anchor text score for the document as a function of the personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents; and
generating a personalized ranking for the document based on its information retrieval score and personalized anchor text score.
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A search engine identifies a list of documents from a set of documents in a database in response to a set of query terms. For each document in the list, the search engine determines an information retrieval score based on its content and the query terms, and also identifies a set of source documents that have links to the document and that also have anchor text satisfying a predefined requirement with respect to the query terms. The search engine calculates a personalized page importance score for each of the identified source documents according to a set of user-specific parameters and accumulates the personalized page importance scores to produce a personalized anchor text score for the document. The personalized anchor text score is then combined with the document'"'"'s information retrieval score to generate a personalized ranking for the document. The documents are ordered according to their respective personalized rankings.
132 Citations
51 Claims
-
1. A computer-implemented method of determining a personalized ranking of a document that satisfies a set of query terms, comprising:
-
determining an information retrieval score for the document based on its content and the set of query terms; identifying a set of source documents that have links to the document and that have anchor text satisfying a predefined requirement with respect to the set of query terms; calculating personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents according to a set of user-specific parameters; accumulating a personalized anchor text score for the document as a function of the personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents; and generating a personalized ranking for the document based on its information retrieval score and personalized anchor text score. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
-
-
16. A method for generating, in response to a set of query terms and a set of user-specific parameters, a list of documents that satisfy the set of query terms, comprising:
-
identifying a list of documents from a set of documents in a database, each document satisfying the set of query terms; for each document in the list, determining an information retrieval score for the document based on its content; identifying source documents that have links to the document and that have anchor text satisfying a predefined requirement with respect to the set of query terms; calculating personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents according to a set of user-specific parameters; accumulating a personalized anchor text score for the document as a function of the personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents; and generating a personalized ranking for the document based on its information retrieval score and personalized anchor text score; and ordering the list of documents according to their respective personalized rankings. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
-
-
31. A search engine system, comprising:
-
one or more central processing units for executing programs; and a server executable by the one or more central processing units, the server comprising; instructions for identifying a list of documents from a set of documents in a database, each document satisfying the set of query terms; for each document in the list, instructions for ranking each document in the list of documents, including; instructions for determining an information retrieval score for the document based on its content and the set of query terms; instructions for identifying a set of source documents that have links to the document and that have anchor text satisfying a predefined requirement with respect to the set of query terms; instructions for calculating personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents according to a set of user-specific parameters; instructions for accumulating a personalized anchor text score for the document as a function of the personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents; and instructions for generating a personalized ranking for the document based on its information retrieval score and personalized anchor text score; and instructions for ordering the list of documents according to their respective personalized rankings. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
-
-
39. A computer readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions for use in conjunction with a computer system, for determining a personalized ranking of a document that satisfies a set of query terms, comprising:
-
instructions for determining an information retrieval score for the document based on its content and the set of query terms; instructions for identifying a set of source documents that have links to the document and that have anchor text satisfying a predefined requirement with respect to the set of query terms; instructions for calculating personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents according to a set of user-specific parameters; instructions for accumulating a personalized anchor text score for the document as a function of the personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents; and instructions for generating a personalized ranking for the document based on its information retrieval score and personalized anchor text score. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
-
-
51. A computer readable storage medium, for use in conjunction with a computer system, for generating a list of documents that satisfy the set of query terms, comprising:
-
instructions for identifying a list of documents from a set of documents in a database, each document satisfying the set of query terms; for each document in the list, instructions for ranking each document in the list of documents, including; instructions for determining an information retrieval score for the document based on its content and the set of query terms; instructions for identifying a set of source documents that have links to the document and that have anchor text satisfying a predefined requirement with respect to the set of query terms; instructions for calculating personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents according to a set of user-specific parameters; instructions for accumulating a personalized anchor text score for the document as a function of the personalized page importance scores of the identified source documents; and instructions for generating a personalized ranking for the document based on its information retrieval score and personalized anchor text score; and instructions for ordering the list of documents according to their respective personalized rankings.
-
Specification