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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Dmitriy Meyerzon, Bellevue, WA (US);
Stephen Edward Robertson, London, GB;
Hugo Zaragoza, Cambridge, GB;
Michael J. Taylor, Cambridge, GB;
Dmitriy Meyerzon, Bellevue, WA (US);
Stephen Edward Robertson, London, GB;
Hugo Zaragoza, Cambridge, GB;
Michael J. Taylor, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Search results of a search query on a network are ranked according to a scoring function that incorporates anchor text as a term. The scoring function is adjusted so that a target document of anchor text reflect the use of terms in the anchor text in the target document's ranking. Initially, the properties associated with the anchor text are collected during a crawl of the network. A separate index is generated that includes an inverted list of the documents and the terms in the anchor text. The index is then consulted in response to a query to calculate a document's score. The score is then used to rank the documents and produce the query results.