Patent Document ID: 8239378
Application ID: 13244848

Base Claim:
1. A method performed by one or more devices, the method comprising: determining, by the one or more devices, that a document is a search result that is responsive to a plurality of different search queries; negatively adjusting, by the one or more devices, a score for the document based on determining that the document is a search result that is responsive to the plurality of different search queries; ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based on the negatively-adjusted score; determining that another particular document is presented as a search result for another plurality of different search queries; determining that the other particular document is an authoritative document; and bypassing negatively adjusting a score, for the other particular document, based on determining that the other particular document is an authoritative document.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , where ranking the document includes ranking the document with regard to the at least one other document based on the generated score, independent of a relevance of the document to a search query.