Patent ID: 8392394

Claim:
A method comprising: obtaining first search results responsive to a query from a first search engine system where the first search engine system utilized a first index and a first scoring algorithm to respectively identify and score each of the first search results; obtaining second search results responsive to the query from a second search engine system where the search engine system utilized a second, different index and a second, different scoring algorithm to respectively identify and score each of the second search results; identifying a number of first search results that are authority results, wherein an authority result refers to an authority page of a business entity; re-scoring a portion of the number of first search results that are authority results using the second scoring algorithm; combining the re-scored first search results that are authority results with the second search results to generate combined second search results, wherein an authority result refers to an authority page of a business entity the authority results in the combined second search results are ordered to correspond to a relative order of authority results in the first search results if the number of first search results that are authority results exceeds a threshold; and providing the combined second search results to a client device in response to the query.