Patent ID: 8255386
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An automated method, comprising: identifying, by one or more processors associated with one or more computer devices, a collection of documents; predicting, by one or more processors associated with one or more computer devices, a utility score for each document of a plurality of documents in the collection of documents, the utility score reflecting a measure of quality of the document as a search result for search queries, the utility score for a particular document, in the plurality of documents, being predicted based on: rules generated of a model based on a plurality of search queries and corresponding search results, and at least one of: creating, by one or more processors associated with one or more computer devices, a ranked list of the plurality of documents based on the predicted utility scores for the plurality of documents; selecting, by one or more processors associated with one or more computer devices, a number of the documents in the ranked list of the plurality of documents; indexing, by one or more processors associated with one or more computer devices, the selected documents to create an index; and storing, in a memory, the index.