Patent ID: 8601059

Claim:
A method implemented on a computer for providing trustworthiness for users of a social network for a peer-to-peer file sharing web site, comprising: listening, by the computer, to web browsing activities of a user searching on the peer-to-peer file sharing web site; receiving feedback from user selections when web browsing on the peer-to-peer file sharing website, by the computer monitoring user actions which comprises: monitoring the user searching the peer-to-peer file sharing web site and search results obtained; and in response to the user selecting a first link to download a first file in the search results in the peer-to-peer file sharing web site, determining by the computer a score for the first link to download the first file based on the user selecting a second link to download a second file in the search results of the peer-to-peer file sharing web site; determining, by the computer, that the first link to download the first file is bad based on selection of the second link to download the second file after having selected the first link to download the first file when both the first link and the second link are for a same search results on the peer-to-peer file sharing web site; and providing the score for the first link to the users of the social network.