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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2006
Sandy Wong, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yet L. Huynh, Seattle, WA (US);
Ramakrishnan Natarajan, Redmond, WA (US);
Joon Young Kim, Snohomish, WA (US);
Michael D. Thogersen, Seattle, WA (US);
Tong Yao, Beijing, CN;
Sandy Wong, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yet L. Huynh, Seattle, WA (US);
Ramakrishnan Natarajan, Redmond, WA (US);
Joon Young Kim, Snohomish, WA (US);
Michael D. Thogersen, Seattle, WA (US);
Tong Yao, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A web crawler system as described herein utilizes a targeted approach to increase the likelihood of downloading web pages of a desired type or category. The system employs a plurality of URL scoring metrics that generate individual scores for outlinked URLs contained in a downloaded web page. For each outlinked URL, the individual scores are combined using an appropriate algorithm or formula to generate an overall score that represents a downloading priority for the outlinked URL. The web crawler application can then download subsequent web pages in an order that is influenced by the downloading priorities.