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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2002
Arkady Borkovsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Douglas M. Cook, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-marc Langlois, Alameda, CA (US);
Tomi Poutanen, Toronto, CA;
Hongyuan Zha, State College, PA (US);
Arkady Borkovsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Douglas M. Cook, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-Marc Langlois, Alameda, CA (US);
Tomi Poutanen, Toronto, CA;
Hongyuan Zha, State College, PA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for using network traffic logs for search enhancement is disclosed. According to one embodiment, network usage is tracked by generating log files. These log files among other things indicate the frequency web pages are referenced and modified. These log files or information from these log files can then be used to improve document ranking, improve web crawling, determine tiers in a multi-tiered index, determine where to insert a document in a multi-tiered index, determine link weights, and update a search engine index.