Patent ID: 7343374
Filing Date: 2008-03-11
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for presenting a set of search results, the method comprising: assigning, to each page of a set of one or more pages, an authority weight; wherein the authority weight assigned to each page represents a relative importance of the page relative to other pages; for each page in the set of pages, recursively distributing the page's authority weight over pages that belong to a collection of pages, thereby establishing authority weights for at least some pages, within the collection, that do not belong to the set of one or more pages; wherein the step of recursively distributing the page's authority weight includes establishing the page as a current page and repeatedly performing the following steps until an end condition is satisfied: receiving a search query that is to be executed against the collection; identifying a set of pages from the collection that match the search query; determining how to present search results that list the pages that match the said search query based, at least in part, on the authority weights associated with the pages that match the search query; and presenting the search results that list the pages that match the said search query based, at least in part, on the authority weights associated with the pages that match the search query.