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Methods and systems for prioritizing a crawl

  • US 8,386,728 B1
  • Filed: 09/14/2004
  • Issued: 02/26/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for crawling articles on a storage device local to a client device, comprising:

  • (a) identifying, by an application executing on the client device, a plurality of storage locations located on the client device, each storage location storing a plurality of articles;

    (b) identifying, by the application executing on the client device, events performed by a user of the client device, wherein the events are associated with the plurality of articles;

    (c) ranking, by the application executing on the client device, the plurality of storage locations based at least in part on the events; and

    (d) crawling, by the application executing on the client device, the plurality of storage locations based at least in part on the ranking, the crawling comprising;

    identifying, for one of the storage locations, a duplicate set of storage locations;

    crawling the one of the storage locations and repressing crawls of the duplicate set of storage locations;

    indexing the plurality of articles of at least the one of the storage locations, anddetermining a time to re-crawl based on the plurality of articles of at least the one of the storage locations.

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