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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2010
Anurag Acharya, Campbell, CA (US);
Matt Cutts, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jeffrey Dean, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Paul Haahr, San Francisco, CA (US);
Monika Henzinger, Corseaux, CH;
Steve Lawrence, Mountain View, CA (US);
Karl Pfleger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Simon Tong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anurag Acharya, Campbell, CA (US);
Matt Cutts, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jeffrey Dean, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Paul Haahr, San Francisco, CA (US);
Monika Henzinger, Corseaux, CH;
Steve Lawrence, Mountain View, CA (US);
Karl Pfleger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Simon Tong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method may include receiving a document and an initial score for the document; determining that there has been a decrease in a rate or quantity of new links that point to the document over time; classifying the document as stale in response to the determining; decreasing the initial score for the document, resulting in an updated score; and ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.