Indexing and searching dynamically changing search corpora

摘要

Tools and techniques for indexing and searching dynamically changing search corpora are provided. These tools may receive requests to upload documents over a network to an online document repository, and present a user interface to facilitate the upload. The user interface may include devices that are responsive to user activation to grant permission to at least one other user to search for content contained within the documents. Through the user interface, these tools may receive selections from the user related to granting the permission, with the documents being associated with share parameters that incorporate the user selections. Finally, the tools may receive identifications of the documents to be uploaded.

主权项

1. A dynamic indexing and search system comprising:
at least one processor; an online document repository; a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when loaded into the at least one processor and executed, cause the at least one processor to
receive a search request from a user device;extract a user identifier, one or more search terms, ranking preferences, and representations of a plurality of search scopes from the received search request, the ranking preferences for increasing or decreasing the rank of search results identified within each associated search scope;filter documents contained within the online document repository based on the user identifier and the search scope, each document in the online document repository having a document type that is specified by a share permission associated with each respective document, each share permission having been provided by an uploading user when the respective document was uploaded to the online document repository, wherein share permissions of the documents collectively define the plurality of search scopes of the documents; search the filtered documents for any occurrences of the one or more search terms to generate search results;rank the generated search results in the plurality of search scopes based on the ranking preferences, the ranking preferences controlling display of documents in the ranked search results by rank and according to the document type; andreturn the ranked search results containing representations of any occurrences of the one or more search terms within the filtered documents in response to the search request received from the user device, the returned ranked search results being configured for display on the user device by rank and according to the document type.