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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Huican Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Anurag Acharya, Campbell, CA (US);
Max Ibel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Howard Bradley Gobioff, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and method are provided for setting a respective reuse flag for a corresponding document in a plurality of documents based on a query-independent score associated with the corresponding document. A document crawling operation is performed on the plurality of documents in accordance with the reuse flag for respective documents in the plurality of documents. This document crawling operation includes reusing a previously downloaded version of a respective document in the plurality of documents instead of downloading a current version of the respective document from a host computer in accordance with a determination that the reuse flag associated with the respective document meets a predefined criterion.