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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2004
Mark S. D'urso, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark S. D'Urso, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A search system for finding information relevant on an intranet in response to a user query. Separate from the query, the system crawls the intranet to select at least some of the pages in the intranet. The system determines, for items in a selected page, an indication of the specificity or generality of that information based on structural information, such as display formatting or a number of links in a shortest path from a root page to the identified page. The system can also determine the level of specificity of a search query. When a user provides a query to request information over the intranet, pages matching the query can be ranked by comparing the level of specificity or generality of the query to the level of specificity or generality of the terms that match the query.