Patent Document ID: 8549014
Application ID: 13232599

Base Claim:
1. A method performed by one or more devices, the method comprising: determining, by at least one of the one or more devices, a measure of how anchor text, that is associated with a link pointing to a document and that includes character text referring to a content of the document, changes over time; generating, by at least one of the one or more devices, a score for the document based on the measure of how the anchor text, associated with the link pointing to the document, changes over time; and ranking, by at least one of the one or more devices, the document with regard to at least one other document based on the score.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , where the anchor text is one of a plurality of anchor text associated with a plurality of links pointing to the document; where determining the measure of how the anchor text changes over time includes: analyzing, over time, a respective appearance of the plurality of anchor text, and identifying a rate of increase in the respective appearance of the analyzed plurality of anchor text.