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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Yuk L. Chan, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Tin H. To, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Wei Zhou, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Uman Chan, Staten Island, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided for providing trustworthiness for users of a social network for web sites. The computer listens to web browsing activities of a user, and receives feedback from the user when web browsing by monitoring user actions. monitoring user actions includes monitoring the user searching a peer-to-peer environment and search results obtained, and in response to the user selecting a first link for the search results in the peer-to-peer environment, determining a score for the first link based on the user selecting a second link for the search results. The score for the first link is provided to the users of the social network.