Patent Document ID: 8203952
Application ID: 12168797

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising the steps of: receiving, at a search engine operating on one or more computing devices from a traffic server that is not the search engine and is not operating on the one or more computing devices, network usage information that indicates a frequency with which users of a plurality of users requested, during a particular period of time, a particular document through the traffic server, which monitors frequencies with which documents in a plurality of documents are provided, through the traffic server, from a plurality of origin servers upon which the plurality of documents reside, to the plurality of users in response to a plurality of document-identifying requests from the plurality of users; the search engine positioning the particular document within a queue at a queue position that is selected based on said network usage information; the search engine performing a crawling or indexing operation based at least in part on the position of the particular document within the queue.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of requests from the plurality of users include requests that are not requests for search results provided by the search engine.