Patent Document ID: 8423541
Application ID: 11132362

Base Claim:
1. A computer-readable memory device storing computer-executable instructions, the computer-readable memory device comprising: one or more instructions for receiving, from a user, a first request to perform a search based on a first search query; one or more instructions for providing a first set of search results to the user based on the first search query; one or more instructions for receiving a request, from the user, to save one or more selected search results of the first set of search results; one or more instructions for saving, in a memory and in response to the request, information associated with the selected one or more search results; one or more instructions for receiving, from the user, a second request to perform a search based on a second search query, where the second request is received subsequent to the first request; one or more instructions for generating a second set of search results based on the second search query; one or more instructions for determining that a particular search result, in the second set of search results, is similar to a selected search result of the selected one or more search results based on the saved information, where the one or more instructions for determining includes at least two of: one or more instructions for determining whether the particular search result and the selected search result have a plurality of outgoing links pointing to the same documents, one or more instructions for determining whether the particular search result and the selected search result have a plurality of incoming links coming from the same documents, one or more instructions for determining whether the particular search result and the selected search result have a same format, or one or more instructions for determining whether the particular search result and the selected search result have a same layout; one or more instructions for boosting a score of the particular search result to obtain a boosted score when the particular search result is determined to be similar to the selected search result; and one or more instructions for providing the second set of search results including providing the particular search result based on the boosted score.

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Claim 4:
4. The computer-readable memory device of claim 1 , where the one or more instructions for determining that the particular search result is similar to the selected search result, includes: one or more instructions for determining that the search result and the selected search result are located on a same web site, one or more instructions for determining that the search result and the selected search result have a same ratio of images to text, one or more instructions for determining that a majority of words, in the search result and the selected search result, match, one or more instructions for determining that a majority of uncommon words, in the search result and the selected search result, match, one or more instructions for determining that the search result and the selected search result have a plurality of outgoing links pointing to the same documents, one or more instructions for determining that the search result and the selected search result have a plurality of incoming links coming from the same documents, one or more instructions for determining that the search result and the selected search result have same meta-data tags, one or more instructions for determining that the search result and the selected search result have a same format, and one or more instructions for determining that the search result and the selected search result have a same layout.