Method for ranking web page search results
US7398461B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 24, 2002 |
| Grant date | Jul 8, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 5, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/951
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system for indexing a document including: receiving a document to be processed for inclusion in an index of documents; locating a set of documents that include hyperlinks to the document; retrieving anchortext associated with each hyperlink; parsing the anchortext into one or more tokens. Then for each token the following acts are performed: determining a weight for the token, determining whether the weight assigned to the token exceeds a threshold token weight; and indexing the document under the token, if the token weight assigned to the token exceeds the threshold token weight.
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