| 摘要 |
A computerized method used by a distributed Web search engine for computing a ranking score associated with an item, such as a Web page, comprising the steps of: (1) generating a grouping of items in the Web according to Web sites, geographic criterion, and/or field, (2) determining links among groups; (3) for at least some groups, computing a group ranking using only inter-group links, (4) within at least several of the groups, computing a local item ranking for at least some items within the group, (5) for at least one item, locally computing a global item ranking by multiplying said group ranking and said local item ranking. Advantage: no need to retrieve a global link matrix. Method can be distributed. Reduction of cost in computation, better impeding of spamming, fresher ranking results.
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