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Methods and apparatus for clustering news content

  • US 7,568,148 B1
  • Filed: 06/30/2003
  • Issued: 07/28/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of scoring a source, comprising:

  • identifying the source;

    detecting a plurality of documents published by the source;

    calculating measures of freshness of the plurality of documents based on determining a difference between times that events occur and times that the identified source published the plurality of documents that includes content relating to the events;

    calculating measures of quality for the plurality of documents based on at least one of;

    numbers of views of the plurality of documents during a time period, ornumbers of links pointing to the plurality of documents; and

    determining a source score for the source based on the measures of freshness and the measures of quality.

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