Lycos, Inc.

Gray Watson

Vladimir V Zelevinsky

Brian Ulicny

Alden Dorosario

Sangam Pant

Steven Quince

Richard M Green

Christopher A Ekberg

David L Andre

Stavros Michael MacRakis

Michael J Schiegg

A method of generating a report from multiple sources includes obtaining a topic based on input queries relating to the topic, obtaining information about the topic from the multiple sources, where the information includes excerpts from the multiple sources that meet one or more criteria, and generating the report using the excerpts. Generating the report includes obtaining subtopics for the excerpts, organizing the excerpts based on the subtopics, and editing text in the excerpts.

Information synthesis engine

A computer system for performing searches on a collection of information includes a mechanism through which results from a search query are ranked according to user specified relevance factors to allow the user to control how the search results are presented. The relevance factors are applied to the results achieved for each query. That is, each item returned by the search has a set of attributes. Each of these attributes is assigned a weight according to the specified relevance factors. These weights are combined to provide a score for the item. Search results are provided to the user, ordered according to scores. The application of the relevance factors does not alter the query performed on the collection of information.

Computer system with user-controlled relevance ranking of search results

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