Method and system for establishing document relevance
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- automatically analyzing, with a bot, documents hosted at respective sources to determine whether respective groups of said documents are maintained in respective organizational structures at said respective sources, said organizational structures indicating an implied relevance of the documents with respect to topics associated with said organizational structures, said implied relevance being higher for those documents determined by said bot as being maintained within a respective one of the organizational structures than for those documents not so included in any of the organizational structures, wherein said organizational structures include an index which represents an arrangement of documents in alphabetical or numerical order;
obtaining, with a search engine and responsive to a keyword search, search results that include one or more of the documents; and
organizing the search results, at least in part, based on a weighting scheme that takes into consideration a score derived from said implied relevance.
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Abstract
A search engine that provides search results which are ordered, in part, based on an automated analysis of the organizational structure of a group of documents, as indicated by the address of the documents, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a bot crawls various websites analyzing documents, and their organizational structure, in an effort to identify documents that have an implicit high quality based on their inclusion in an index. Accordingly, the search engine provides a greater weight in ranking document relevance to those documents that have been included in certain indexes, such as top ten lists, and A-Z lists.
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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automatically analyzing, with a bot, documents hosted at respective sources to determine whether respective groups of said documents are maintained in respective organizational structures at said respective sources, said organizational structures indicating an implied relevance of the documents with respect to topics associated with said organizational structures, said implied relevance being higher for those documents determined by said bot as being maintained within a respective one of the organizational structures than for those documents not so included in any of the organizational structures, wherein said organizational structures include an index which represents an arrangement of documents in alphabetical or numerical order; obtaining, with a search engine and responsive to a keyword search, search results that include one or more of the documents; and organizing the search results, at least in part, based on a weighting scheme that takes into consideration a score derived from said implied relevance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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