Patent ID: 8126876
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method, performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a search query, from a client device; generating, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices and in response to receiving the search query, a list of references to news articles; identifying, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices and for each reference in the list of references, a news source with which each reference is associated; determining, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices and for each identified news source, whether a news source rank exists; determining, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices and for each reference with an existing corresponding news source rank, a new score by combining the news source rank and a score corresponding to a previous ranking of the reference; and ranking, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, the references in the list of references based, at least in part, on the new scores.