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20090013033 | Identifying excessively reciprocal links among web entities - A method for identifying reciprocal links is provided. At a particular host, the set of hosts which link to the particular host and the set of hosts to which the particular host links are determined. The intersection and union of the two sets of hosts are also determined, and the sizes of the intersection and union are calculated. The concentration of reciprocal links at the particular host is calculated based on the sizes of the intersection and union. A ratio of the intersection size to the union size is used to determine the concentration of reciprocal links. The particular host's rank in a list of ranked search results may be changed as a result of identification of a high concentration of reciprocal links. | 01-08-2009 |
20090187592 | WEB DOCUMENT USER EXPERIENCE CHARACTERIZATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided that may be used to characterize in some manner the performance that a user may experience when accessing a web document. An exemplary method may include accessing at least one performance characteristic associated with at least a portion of a computing environment adapted for sharing at least one web document, and establishing user experience information associated with the web document based, at least in part, on the performance characteristic. | 07-23-2009 |
20090327859 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING WEB DOCUMENT LAYOUT AND PRESENTATION TO IMPROVE USER EXPERIENCE IN WEB SEARCH - Methods and systems are provided that may be used to characterize in some manner the performance that a user may experience when accessing at least one web document. An exemplary method may include processing the at least one web document to assess a user experience associated with the at least one web document based, at least in part, on at least one predefined user experience criterion associated with the at least one web document, and evaluating the at least one web document based, at least in part, on the user experience. | 12-31-2009 |
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20090006357 | DETERMINING QUALITY MEASURES FOR WEB OBJECTS BASED ON SEARCHER BEHAVIOR - Techniques are provided for generating quality measures for items, including web pages, based on a “random searcher” behavior model. The random searcher behavior model takes into account “implicit” links between items, instead of or in addition to the explicit links. After identifying the implicit links between items, the implicit links may be used as the basis for generating quality measures for the items to which the implicit links point. A variety of types of implicit links are described. To facilitate the generation of quality measures for items based on implicit links, a graph of the implicit links may be constructed in a manner similar to a webgraph. | 01-01-2009 |
20090043748 | ESTIMATING THE DATE RELEVANCE OF A QUERY FROM QUERY LOGS - Techniques are provided maintaining data that indicates for a plurality of query terms whether the plurality of query terms are date-qualified query terms. A query is received, and in response to receiving the query, the query is inspected to determine that the query contains a particular date-qualified query term. Then it is determined that the particular date-qualified query term has been associated with a plurality of dates, and it is determined which of the plurality of dates with which to associate the date-qualified query term for the query, based at least in part on the frequency with which each particular date of the plurality of dates has been associated with the particular date-qualified query term. | 02-12-2009 |
20090043749 | EXTRACTING QUERY INTENT FROM QUERY LOGS - Techniques are provided for storing queries received by a search engine are in a query log. For a particular query term in the query, it is determined how many queries in the query log contain that particular query term and an intent-indicating term, and determined how many queries in the query log contain that particular query term without an intent-indicating term. Based on the ratio between the number of queries in the query log that contain the particular query term and the intent-indicating term and the number of queries in the query log that contain the particular query term without the intent-indicating term, it is determined whether the particular query term is an intent-qualified query term. In response to determining that the particular query term is an intent-qualified query term, data is stored in a computer-readable medium that identifies the query term as an intent-qualified query term. Implicit-intent queries that contain the intent-qualified query term are processed based, at least in part, on the intent associated with the intent-qualified query term. | 02-12-2009 |
20100094868 | DETECTION OF UNDESIRABLE WEB PAGES - A system for detecting artificial promotion of a resource, including a search engine operative to index a set incoming links (“inlinks”) which reference the resource, a log module coupled with the search engine and configured to store log data associated with the set of inlinks, a partitioning module coupled with log module and operative to partition the set of inlinks into a plurality of groups of inlinks based on at least one partitioning scheme, a statistics module coupled with the partitioning module and operative to compute a statistic associated with the inlinks within each of the plurality of groups of inlinks, and a computation module coupled with the statistics module and operative to process the computed statistic associated with the inlinks of each of the plurality of groups of inlinks and compute a metric associated with set of inlinks where the metric indicates a level of uniformity of a distribution of values of the respective computed statistics among the plurality of groups of inlinks, and where the search engine places a list of search results, generated in response to a search query, in a pattern based on the metric. | 04-15-2010 |
20100185449 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING WITH AN INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE (IVR) SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method and system for interacting with an IVR system. In one aspect, a computing device receives a user request to connect to an IVR system to perform an action. A request for information (e.g., a request to select from a plurality of menu options) is obtained from the IVR system. In response to the request, the computing device automatically supplies an answer to the request for information to the IVR system. In one embodiment, the answer is a dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signal. The obtaining and supplying steps are repeated until the action has been performed. | 07-22-2010 |
20100287129 | SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS RELATING TO CATEGORIZING OR SELECTING POTENTIAL SEARCH RESULTS - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with categorizing or selecting potential search engine results are disclosed. | 11-11-2010 |
20120158740 | CACHING WEB DOCUMENTS IN TWO OR MORE CACHES - A system and method is described herein that cache web documents in two or more caches in an optimized manner. The web documents result from a plurality of queries presented to a web search engine. Each web document has a tier score indicating a position of the web document in the caches. The tier scores are modified in a manner that rearranges the web documents in caches. This rearrangement of the web documents in the caches can advantageously improve the retrieval time for the web documents. | 06-21-2012 |