System and method for adding identity to web rank

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer program products for generating search results comprising web documents with associated expert information. One embodiment of a method for generating such search results includes receiving one or more search queries, selecting one of the one or more search queries, determining one or more categories of web documents responsive to the selected search query and crawling a web graph of linked web documents to identify one or more web documents tagged as within the one or more categories responsive to the selected search query. The method further includes generating a result set of the one or more web documents identified as within the one or more categories responsive to the selected search query, ranking the result set and generating a list of ranked search results responsive to the selected search.

主权项

1. A method for supplementing a web graph of linked web documents, the method comprising:
identifying a web graph of web documents linked by one or more categories; selecting one of one or more experts for one or more categories of web documents; selecting a given category of the one or more categories for which the selected expert is an expert for; identifying one or more additional web documents that have been tagged by the selected expert; determining the category for the one or more additional web documents that have been tagged by the selected expert; determining whether the category for the one or more additional web documents that have been tagged by the selected expert is the same as the given category for which the selected expert is an expert for; assigning a proxy document to the selected expert where the category for the one or more additional web documents that have been tagged by the selected expert is the same as the given category for which the selected expert is an expert for; and linking the proxy document to the one or more additional web documents that have been tagged by the selected expert in the web graph.