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Accounting for authorship in a web log search engine

  • US 9,251,269 B2
  • Filed: 10/27/2011
  • Issued: 02/02/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2011
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for authorship accountability in a blog search engine, the method comprising:

  • receiving a search engine query via a completed form by a user specifying query terms to query World Wide Web (“

    Web”

    ) content (“

    blog content”

    ), authorship criteria for authors of blog content and also content criteria, the authorship criteria including an indication of a degree to which a blog author of blog content in a results set is deemed both authoritative and trustworthy, wherein authoritativeness is computed by determining a number of others whom have subscribed to blog content authored by an author, wherein trustworthiness is computed by at least one of determining whether the blog author is known to a querying end user through inclusion in a list of contacts for the end user and frequent communications exchanged by the end user with the blog author, and wherein the blog author is a writer of blog content;

    evaluating the authorship criteria for each blog author of corresponding blog content returned by the search engine query;

    evaluating the content criteria for the blog content returned in the results set by the search engine query;

    computing a relevance for each entry in the results set based upon the evaluated authorship criteria and also the evaluated content criteria; and

    ,presenting in order of relevance a listing of blog content corresponding to the results set.

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