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Identification and ranking of news stories of interest

  • US 8,667,037 B1
  • Filed: 02/08/2013
  • Issued: 03/04/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2007
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method performed by one or more computers, the method comprising:

  • identifying a plurality of hub pages that each include at least a threshold number of hyperlinks to online content;

    determining, for each of at least two of the hyperlinks and by one or more computers, a respective reference position score based on relative presentation positions of the hyperlinks in the hub pages, the relative presentation position of each hyperlink in a hub page being a location in the hub page at which the hyperlink is presented relative to locations in the hub page at which different hyperlinks to different online content are presented;

    deriving, by one or more computers, scores for online content to which the hyperlinks link, the score for a particular portion of online content being derived using the respective reference position scores for the hyperlinks to the particular portion of online content; and

    providing data representing the scores.

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