DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON LINK-BASED CRITERIA

• US 20110022605A1
• Filed: 10/01/2010
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Henzinger, Monika, Lawrence, Steve, Pfleger, Karl, Acharya, Anurag, Tong, Simon, Cutts, Matt, Haahr, Paul, Dean, Jeffrey
• Granted Patent: US 8,407,231 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 method may include receiving a document and an initial score for the document; determining that there has been a decrease in a rate or quantity of new links that point to the document over time; classifying the document as stale in response to the determining; decreasing the initial score for the document, resulting in an updated score; and ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a document and an initial score for the document;

determining that there has been a decrease in a rate or quantity of new links that point to the document over time;

classifying the document as stale in response to the determining;

decreasing the initial score for the document, resulting in an updated score; and

ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.