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Vishnu Challam

Kumar Hemachandra Chellapilla

Junaid Ahmed

Abhishek Kumar Singh

Walter Sun

Rangan Majumder

Krishna Chaitanya Gade

Janine Crumb

Fabrice Canel

Thomas Francis McElroy

Ranking domains for search engines is provided herein. To rank a domain, contributing domains associated with the domain are identified. Additionally, the maturity of each of the contributing domains is determined. A rank for the domain is then determined based at least in part on the maturity of each of the contributing domains. The domain rankings may then be used to order results for search queries.

Ranking domains using domain maturity

A client application installed on end user computers generates metadata from the content of web pages visited by end users and provides the metadata to a search engine. When an end user visits a web page, the end user's computer downloads and displays the web page to the end user. The client application may simultaneously access the web page content and generate this metadata in the form of a content signature of the web page from the web page content. The client application then provides the content signature to a search engine. The search engine may employ content signatures to identify new web pages to crawl and index. Additionally, the search engine may employ content signatures to identify changes to web pages and determine the crawl frequency of web pages.

Content signature notification

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