Patent ID: 7756867
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: ranking a plurality of documents returned as a result of a query computed for each search engine of a plurality of search engines; wherein each document of said plurality of documents is associated with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL); wherein said plurality of documents includes at least one document returned as a result of said query from said each search engine; for each URL associated with a document from said plurality of documents, determining a frequency of said URL; wherein ranking said plurality of documents includes ranking said plurality of documents based on one or more factors, said one or more factors being based on said frequency determined for each URL associated with said plurality of documents; wherein said frequency of a particular URL is based on a number of said plurality of search engines that return at least one document corresponding to the particular URL and a number of search engines over which said query is executed; and wherein ranking a particular document of said plurality of documents is based at least in part on an inverse function of the frequency of the URL associated with said particular document; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.