Patent ID: 8117195
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising: receiving, by at least one of the one or more server devices, a first search query to perform a web search, the first search query being received from a client device; identifying, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, a search result, based on the first search query, from a corpus of web documents; formulating, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, a second search query to perform a blog search, where the second search query includes terms from the search result; searching, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices and using the second search query, a repository of documents that include blog posts, to identify a blog post relevant to the search result; determining, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, rejecting, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, the identified blog post if the identified blog post is associated with the out-degree larger than the outgoing threshold; and sending, by at least one of the one or more server devices, the search result and information associated with the identified blog post to the client device, if the identified blog post is not rejected.