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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2007
Tie-yan Liu, Beijing, CN;
Hang LI, Beijing, CN;
Lei Qi, Shandong Province, CN;
Bin Gao, Beijing, CN;
Tie-Yan Liu, Beijing, CN;
Hang Li, Beijing, CN;
Lei Qi, Shandong Province, CN;
Bin Gao, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A calculate importance system calculates the global importance of a web page based on a 'mean hitting time.' Hitting time of a target web page is a measure of the minimum number of transitions needed to land on the target web page. Mean hitting time of a target web page is an average number of such transitions for all possible starting web pages. The calculate importance system calculates a global importance score for a web page based on the reciprocal of a mean hitting time. A search engine may rank web pages of a search result based on a combination of relevance of the web pages to the search request and global importance of the web pages based on a global hitting time.