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AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsArkady Borkovsky, Douglas M. Cook, Jean-Marc Langlois, Tomi Poutanen, Hongyuan Zha
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A method and apparatus for using network traffic logs for search enhancement is disclosed. According to one embodiment, network usage is tracked by generating log files. These log files among other things indicate the frequency web pages are referenced and modified. These log files or information from these log files can then be used to improve document ranking, improve web crawling, determine tiers in a multi-tiered index, determine where to insert a document in a multi-tiered index, determine link weights, and update a search engine index.
A method for determining when to inspect a document comprising the steps of:
A computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for determining when to inspect a document, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the steps of:
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