Patent ID: 8560530

Claim:
A computer-implemented method to rank the influence of a web site, comprising: filtering out a post that is not relevant to a topic term from a first plurality of posts to a web site; determining a number of inbound links to the web site based on the topic term; determining a time between the inbound links to the web site based on the topic term; determining a number of posts that are relevant to the topic term by: generating a query based on the topic term; generating a first index by applying the query to the first plurality of posts to the web site; and determining the number of posts by comparing the first index with a second index, wherein the second index comprises a list of web sites to which a second plurality of posts belong, the second plurality of posts includes the first plurality of posts; and generating a rank of the web site based on the number of inbound links, the number of posts, and the time between the inbound links.