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US 2009/0024614 A1Published application
Systems and methods for online content searching
AssigneeSMS.ac, Inc.
InventorsMichael C. Pousti, Andrew Ballester
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Abstract
A search engine that can be configured to combine information related to a web page (channel) or content file view and/or “click throughs” with revenue information in order to determine relevance of the various matched content listed in the search results, is disclosed. By combining revenue information with page view/click through information, potentially more relevant results can be presented to the user for viewing.
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A system for searching a network community platform for network community content, comprising:
- a content database communicatively connected to the network community platform, the content database configured to store the network community content and one or more network community content metric associated with the network community content;
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- a content search engine communicatively connected to the network community platform and configured to,
- search the content database to identify network community content that is associated with a search term submitted by a network community platform user,
- sort the identified network community content based on network community content metrics associated with the identified content, and
- generate a list of the sorted identified network community content.
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A method for searching a network community platform for network community content, comprising:
- submitting a search term to a content search engine;
- searching a content database to identify the network community content that is associated with the search term;
- sorting the identified network community content based on content metrics associated with the identified network community content;
- and
- generating a list of the sorted identified network community content.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.