Document scoring based on traffic associated with a document

• US 8,316,029 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2006
• Issued: 11/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Lawrence, Steve
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Khanh
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHEEMA, AZAM M
• Application Number:
  US11/565,026
• Publication Number:
  US 20070088693A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,182 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0246 Traffic
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A system determines an extent to which advertisements are presented or updated within a document, a quality of an advertiser associated with an advertisement provided within the document, whether an advertisement in the document relates to an advertising document that has more than a threshold amount of traffic, and/or an extent to which an advertisement provided within the document generates user traffic to an advertising document related to the advertisement. The system generates a score for the document based, at least in part, on the extent to which advertisements are presented or updated within the document, the quality of the advertiser associated with the advertisement provided within the document, whether the advertisement relates to an advertising document that has more than the threshold amount of traffic, and/or the extent to which the advertisement generates user traffic to the advertising document. The system ranks the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.

Claims

1. A method performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising:

determining, by a processor of the one or more server devices, a rate of appearance, a rate of disappearance, or a rate of update of advertisements within a document over time;

determining, by a processor of the one or more server devices, a measure of quality of advertisers associated with the advertisements within the document, where determining the measure of quality of advertisers includes;

determining the measure of quality of the advertisers based on an amount of traffic to, or a measure of trustworthiness of, advertising documents referred to by the advertisements;

generating, by a processor of the one or more server devices, a score for the document based on;

the rate of appearance, the rate of disappearance, or the rate of update of the advertisements within the document over time, and

the measure of quality of the advertisers associated with the advertisements;

ranking, by a processor of the one or more server devices, the document with regard to at least one other document based on the score; and

presenting, by a processor of the one or more server devices and based on a search query, the document and the at least one other document, where the document and the at least one other document are presented in an order that is based on the ranking.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the advertisements refer to advertising documents that are associated with at least a threshold amount of traffic; and

where generating the score for the document is further based on;

whether the advertisements refer to advertising documents that are associated with at least the threshold amount of traffic.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining an amount of traffic that the advertisements generate to advertising documents referred to by the advertisements; and

where generating the score for the document is further based on;

the amount of traffic that the advertisements generate to the advertising documents.

4. A system, comprising:

one or more server devices to;

determine a rate of appearance, a rate of disappearance, or a rate of update of advertisements within a document over time;

determine a measure of quality of advertisers associated with the advertisements within the document, where the measure of quality is based on;

an amount of traffic to, or a measure of trustworthiness of, advertising documents referred to by the advertisements;

generate a score for the document based on;

the rate of appearance, the rate of disappearance, or the rate of update of the advertisements within the document over time, and

the measure of quality of the advertisers associated with the advertisements;

rank the document with regard to at least one other document based on the generated score; and

present, based on a search query, the document and the at least one other document, where the document and the at least one other document are presented in an order that is based on the ranking.

5. The system of claim 4, where at least one of the one or more server devices is further to:

determine an amount of traffic that the advertisements generate to the advertising documents referred to by the advertisement; and

where when generating the score for the document, at least one of the one or more server devices is to generate the score for the document further based on

the amount of traffic that the advertisements generate to the advertising documents.

6. A computer-readable memory device comprising:

a plurality of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

determine a rate of appearance, a rate of disappearance, or a rate of update of advertisements within a document over time;

determine a measure of quality of advertisers associated with the advertisements within the document, where the measure of quality is based on;

an amount of traffic to, or a measure of trustworthiness of, advertising documents referred to by the advertisements;

generate a score for the document based on;

the rate of appearance, the rate of disappearance, or the rate of update of the advertisements within the document over time, and

the measure of quality of the advertisers associated with the advertisements;

rank the document with regard to at least one other document based on the generated score; and

present, based on a search query, the document and the at least one other document, where the document and the at least one other document are presented in an order that is based on the ranking.

7. The computer-readable memory device of claim 6, where the plurality of instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

determine an amount of traffic that the advertisements generate to advertising documents referred to by the advertisements; and

where the plurality of instructions, which cause the one or more processors to generate the score for the document, further cause the one or more processors to generate the score for the document further based on the amount of traffic that the advertisements generate to the advertising documents.

8. The computer-readable memory device of claim 6, where the plurality of instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

determine whether the advertisements refer to advertising documents that are associated with at least a threshold amount of traffic; and

where the plurality of instructions, which cause the one or more processors to generate the score for the document, further cause the one or more processors to generate the score for the document further based on whether the advertisements refer to advertising documents that are associated with at least a threshold amount of traffic.