Authoritative document identification

A system comprising:

• means for identifying a set of documents, as candidate documents, that are associated with a business;
• means for determining a plurality of signals associated with each of the candidate documents;
• and
• means for determining authoritativeness of the candidate documents for the business based on the signals.

A system, comprising:

• a memory to store instructions;
• and
• a processor to execute the instructions in the memory to:
• determine documents that are associated with a location,
• identify a plurality of signals associated with each of the documents,
• assign authoritative scores to the documents based on the signals, and
• process the documents based on the authoritative scores.

A computer-readable medium that stores computer-executable instructions, comprising:

• instructions for identifying documents that are associated with a location;
• instructions for determining a plurality of signals associated with the documents;
• and
• instructions for determining authoritativeness of the documents for the location based on the signals.

A method comprising:

• identifying a set of documents, as candidate documents, that are associated with a location;
• determining, for each of the candidate documents, a first signal based on a number of outlinks from one or more of the candidate documents that point to the candidate document;
• determining, for each of the candidate documents, a second signal based on whether there is anchor text, which matches all or part of a name of a business associated with the location, associated with a link that points to the candidate document;
• determining, for each of the candidate documents, a third signal based on whether a title of the candidate document matches all or part of the business name;
• determining, for each of the candidate documents, a fourth signal based on whether a domain name associated with the candidate document matches all or part of the business name;
• determining, for each of the candidate documents, a fifth signal based on whether the candidate document is associated with a single location;
• weighting the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth signals;
• combining the weighted first, second, third, fourth, and fifth signals to identify a score for each of the candidate documents;
• and
• processing the candidate documents based on the scores.