Systems for and methods of finding relevant documents by analyzing tags

A computer-implemented method for responding to a search query, as implemented on a computer through an execution of instructions by a processor, the method comprising:

• maintaining a plurality of tags received from a plurality of users over a network, wherein the plurality of tags are maintained in association with one or more of a plurality of objects, wherein each tag comprises user-provided information regarding an object of the plurality of objects, and wherein each tag comprises one or more tag terms, each tag term comprises text;
• receiving the search query for objects of the plurality of objects relevant to the search query, the search query comprising at least one or more search terms, wherein each search term comprises text;
• identifying a list of objects of the plurality of objects in response to the search query;
• ordering objects of the list of objects according to a determined relevance of the objects of the list of objects to the search query;
• determining a tag relevance score for a first object of the list of objects, wherein the first object is associated with at least one tag of the plurality of tags, wherein the at least one tag associated with the first object comprises at least two tag terms, and wherein the tag relevance score for the first object is determined, at least in part, according to a relevance of the at least one tag to the first object;
• reordering the objects of the list of objects based, at least in part, on the tag relevance score of the first object to form a reordered list of objects, wherein a position of the first object in the reordered list of objects is changed by the reordering from a position of the first object in the list of objects;
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• returning at least some of the objects of the reordered list of objects in response to the search query.

A computer-implemented system for returning a search results list in response to a search query, the computer-implemented system comprising:

• at least one processor;
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• a memory storing program instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to at least:
• maintain a plurality of objects;
• receive a plurality of tags from a plurality of users over a network, wherein each tag comprises user-provided information regarding an object of the plurality of objects, and wherein each tag comprises one or more tag terms, and wherein each tag term comprises text;
• associate the plurality of tags with one or more of the plurality of objects;
• receive the search query for objects of the plurality of objects, the search query comprising at least one or more search terms, and where each search term is a text-based term;
• identify a list of objects of the plurality of objects;
• order objects of the list of objects according to a determined relevance of the objects of the list of objects to the search query;
• determine a tag relevance score for a first object of the list of objects, wherein the first object is associated with at least one tag of the plurality of tags, wherein the at least one tag associated with the first object comprises at least two tag terms, and wherein the tag relevance score for the first object is determined, at least in part, according to a relevance of the at least one tag to the first object;
• reorder the objects of the list of objects based, at least in part, on the tag relevance score of the first object to form a reordered list of objects, wherein a position of the first object in the reordered list of objects is changed by the reordering from a position of the first object in the list of objects;
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• return at least some of the objects of the reordered list of objects in response to the search query.