Patent ID: 9626435
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for retrieving information, comprising: receiving, in a non-WWW corpus, a search query for a media author; identifying, within the non-WWW corpus, search results for the search query; generating a score for each of a plurality of media authors identified in the search results, wherein: the score for a corresponding one of the plurality of media authors is based on a combined media popularity score for a plurality of media items authored by the corresponding one of the plurality of media authors and further based on at least another score that is independent of the search query and based at least in part on a geographic location from which the search query is received and on a language used in the geographic location; identifying two of the plurality of media items with an identical title, wherein, when the two media items with the identical title are identified, the at least another score is higher for the media item that is more closely associated with the geographic location and the language than the other of the two media items; ranking the search results based on the score for each of the plurality of media authors; and displaying the ranked search results to the user.