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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2010
Alan C. Strohm, Kirkland, WA (US);
Feng HU, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sascha B. Brawer, Berne, CH;
Maximilian Ibel, Pfaeffikon, CH;
Ralph M. Keller, Zumikon, CH;
Narayanan Shivakumar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Elad Gil, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alan C. Strohm, Kirkland, WA (US);
Feng Hu, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sascha B. Brawer, Berne, CH;
Maximilian Ibel, Pfaeffikon, CH;
Ralph M. Keller, Zumikon, CH;
Narayanan Shivakumar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Elad Gil, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.