Patent ID: 8666990

Claim:
A method for weighting contemporaneous content, the method comprising: receiving request for content items in the form of a query; in response to a user content request, determining content items indexed by one or more web crawlers in an indexed content database and concurrently determining a plurality of contemporaneous content items relating to the user content request, the contemporaneous content items including content items stored in a contemporaneous content item database that have not been indexed by the one or more web crawlers; for each of the contemporaneous content items, identifying one or more authors of the contemporaneous content items; determining an expertise level for the one or more authors; determining an expert weighting for each of the contemporaneous content items based on the expertise level for the corresponding one or more authors; ranking the contemporaneous content items in response to the user content request based on the expert weighting; identifying outdated contemporaneous content items in the contemporaneous content item database by comparing the indexed content items with the contemporaneous content items, and deleting or replacing contemporaneous content items stored in the contemporaneous content item database that match indexed content items; and presenting at least a portion of the contemporaneous content items in response to the user content request.