Patent Document ID: 8630992
Application ID: 12961952

Base Claim:
1. A method for determining a rank of a URL for a search query, the method comprising: receiving a search query by a processor; receiving a URL by the processor; sending the search query to a search engine by the processor; receiving a first result set from the search engine by the processor; receiving a second result set from the search engine by the processor; determining a first rank of the URL in the first result set; determining a second rank of the URL in the second result set; determining a third rank of the URL for the search query for the search engine based on the first and second result sets and the first and second ranks, by the processor; determining a variability of the third rank of the URL for the search engine based on the first and second result sets by the processor and the first and second ranks; and generating a report including the third rank and the variability of the third rank by the processor.

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Claim 2:
2. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising: sending the search query to a first data center of the search engine by the processor; sending the search query to a second data center of the search engine by the processor; receiving the first result set from the first data center by the processor; and receiving the second result set from the second data center by the processor.