Patent ID: 8577987

Claim:
A method executing on a computing system for exposing juice contributions indicative of a target juice value corresponding to a target node within a web of inter-linked nodes, the method comprising: obtaining a first index comprising a multiplicity of first-index node entries, said multiplicity of first-index node entries comprising a node entry corresponding to the target node and a plurality of other node entries corresponding to at least a representative sample of the web of inter-linked nodes; identifying via said first index a first plurality of inbound links targeting the target node; for each of said first plurality of inbound links: identifying via said first index a current source node corresponding to the current inbound link; obtaining via said first index a current-source-node juice value corresponding to the current source node; and determining, in accordance with a plurality of link-weighting factors, a current juice-passed value indicating a portion of said current-source-node juice value that contributes to said target-node juice value; providing, from the computing system to a remote computing system, a plurality of juice-passed values determined for each of said first plurality of inbound links.