Patent ID: 7599911

Claim:
A search system, wherein search results are provided to user search client in response to search queries, comprising: a query server for receiving a current query from one of a user search client; a corpus of documents to which the current query is applied; a review scheduler for generating a reviewed query and transmitting a review assignment based on the reviewed query to a human editor; a human editor ranking system for presenting review assignments to a plurality of human editors during an editorial session; ranking data storage for storing information from the editorial session involving a human editor including at least one ranking adjustment performed by the human editor and including at least one representation of a reviewed query at least similar to the current query, wherein the at least one ranking adjustment is an editorial adjustment corresponding to search results resulting from a search using the reviewed query; and a rank adjuster for generating a ranking of documents returned from the corpus responsive to the current query from the one of the user search clients taking into account at least the information from the editorial session by the human editor, wherein ranking of documents is based on rankings stored in the ranking data storage specific to at least one of the current query and the reviewed query.