TECHNIQUE FOR ENHANCING A SET OF WEBSITE BOOKMARKS BY FINDING RELATED BOOKMARKS BASED ON A LATENT SIMILARITY METRIC

摘要

A method and system for enhancing the quality of a bookmark or a set of bookmarks that have been organized by topic and contain information related to that topic. The method and system analyzes documents accessible by the bookmark or set of bookmarks and performs a search using key terms from that analysis in a vector called a latent similarity metric. The terms that result from this search are preferably ranked in a hierarchy or the like and utilized in a subsequent search to locate and rank additional related documents.