Patent ID: 8788436
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A method that facilitates ranking documents with respect to a received query, the method comprising: at a general purpose search engine, receiving the query, the query configured to retrieve at least one document that is indexed by the general purpose search engine; and causing a processor to output a ranked list of documents based at least in part upon the query, the ranked list of documents comprising a semi-structured web page, a position of the semi-structured web page in the ranked list of documents based at least in part upon a value of a feature that is extracted from the semi-structured web page at a learned location in the semi-structured web page that is known to include the feature, wherein the position of the semi-structured web page in the ranked list of documents is independent of any correlation between text of the query and the value of the feature.