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Systems and methods of retrieving relevant information

  • US 8,086,601 B2
  • Filed: 02/14/2008
  • Issued: 12/27/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer implemented method of searching the Internet, comprising:

  • crawling the entire Internet, to collect web pages without limitation to topic;

    extracting text and link structure from each collected web page;

    generating an indexed database of all collected webpages in which each indexed word is associated with collected web pages on which said indexed word is used, and with other web pages having outbound links from said web pages on which said indexed word is used;

    for each indexed word, ranking each web page in the indexed database associated therewith in descending order of rank;

    wherein the ranking for said each web page on which said indexed word is used, is adjusted, in part, by summing rankings of each of said other collected web page having an outbound link from said each web page; and

    thereafterreceiving one or more keywords in a query;

    searching the ranked, indexed database for that one or more keywords to quickly provide a ranked list of pages on the Internet in descending order of ranking.

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