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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2011
Sasi Parthasarathy, Seattle, WA (US);
Junaid Ahmed, Bellevue, WA (US);
Walter Sun, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jingfeng LI, Issaquah, WA (US);
Paul Alexander Dow, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yajie Siamwalla, Belmont, WA (US);
Sasi Parthasarathy, Seattle, WA (US);
Junaid Ahmed, Bellevue, WA (US);
Walter Sun, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jingfeng Li, Issaquah, WA (US);
Paul Alexander Dow, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yajie Siamwalla, Belmont, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for updating a search index with new uniform resource locators (URLs) and with metadata for new and known URLs. Data associated with communications made by users using a social network is received. The communications include a URL therein that a user has shared, posted, or otherwise communicated to one or more other users using the social network. When the URL is not found in a search index it is identified as a new URL and is added to the search index. A measure of a trending interest, or virality, of the URL is determined from the data. The determined virality is associated with the URL in a search index as metadata. The virality is useable to inform a ranking of the URL against a plurality of other URLs for identification and presentation as a search result in a search engine results page.