Patent ID: 8909628

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of n-grams in a plurality of resources, wherein each of the resources is associated with a particular website; determining, for each of the plurality of resources, a count of n-grams that originated in the resource, wherein each n-gram is determined to have originated in the resource based on an earliest crawl time stamp for the n-gram; determining, based on counts of n-grams that originated in the resources, a first aggregate count of n-grams that originated in the particular website; determining a second aggregate count of the plurality of n-grams that were identified in the plurality of resources associated with the particular website; determining, based on the first and second aggregate counts, a site originality score for the particular website; and using the site originality score when ranking search results that identify resources of the particular website responsive to a search query.