A patent written by Navneet Panda and Vladimir Ofitserov was granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
The fact that the patent was granted didn't mean that it hadn't been changed since the application was filed or that it was being used by the company.
If you want to learn more about Bill Slawski's patent on ranking search results, you can read all about it in the article. Here is the Patent.
It was about looking at inbound links and how many search queries were made about a particular page.
The patent had a lot of parts that worked together.
- Determining, for many groups of resources, a count of independent incoming links to help in the group
- Deciding, for each of the plurality of groups of resources, a count of reference queries
- Choosing, for each of the plurality of groups of resources, a respective group-specific modification factor, wherein the group-specific modification factor for each group get based on the count of independent links and the count of reference queries for the group
- Associating, with each of the plurality of groups of resources, the respective group-specific modification factor for the group, wherein the respective group-specific modification for the group modifies initial scores generated for help in the group in response to received search queries
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