Patent ID: 8176055
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: selecting one or more second content entities based on a respective association score for each of the second content entities wherein the respective association score indicates whether the second content entity is unrelated to a first content entity, and wherein the respective association score is based at least in part on a rank freshness of the second content entity wherein the rank freshness indicates whether a search result rank of the second content entity has recently changed and wherein the rank freshness exceeds a rank freshness threshold; selecting a plurality of arbiters based at least in part on respective geographic locations of the arbiters; providing the first content entity and the second content entities to the plurality of arbiters and obtaining one or more decisions by the arbiters as to whether the second content entities are associated with the first content entity; determining that a second content entity of the second content entities is to be disassociated from the first content entity based on a count of the obtained decisions that indicate that the second content entity is not associated with the first content entity, wherein the count exceeds a count threshold; responsive to the determining, disassociating the second content entity from the first content entity and, for one or more of the selected arbiters who decided that the second content entity is not associated with the first content entity, crediting a respective count for the arbiter; and wherein selecting, providing, and determining are performed by one or more computers.