System and method for providing web search results to a particular computer user based on the popularity of the search results with other computer users

A system for providing World Wide Web (“Web”) search results to a particular computer user based on the popularity of the search results with other computer users, the system comprising:

• one or more computer storage devices;
• one or more monitor servers configured to:
• monitor at least one Web service for new actions of sharing of Web content by computer users;
• and
• identify, from the new actions of sharing of Web content by computer users, a data item that satisfies predetermined interestingness criteria;
• a content parser configured to parse the data item to obtain at least one Uniform Resource Locator (URL);
• and
• an indexing server configured to:
• crawl at least one Web page corresponding to the at least one URL to obtain the content of the at least one Web page;
• analyze the content of the at least one Web page;
• and
• update an index based on the content of the at least one Web page, the index residing on the one or more computer storage devices, the index being usable in processing a Web search query from the particular user.

A system for providing World Wide Web (“Web”) search results to a particular computer user based on the popularity of the search results with other computer users, the system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• at least one communication interface;
• and
• a memory containing a plurality of program instructions configured to cause the at least one processor to:
• monitor, via the at least one communication interface, at least one Web service for new actions of sharing of Web content by computer users;
• identify, from the new actions of sharing of Web content by computer users, a data item that satisfies predetermined interestingness criteria;
• parse the data item to obtain at least one Uniform Resource Locator (URL);
• crawl, via the at least one communication interface, at least one Web page corresponding to the at least one URL to obtain the content of the at least one Web page;
• analyze the content of the at least one Web page;
• and
• update an index based on the content of the at least one Web page, the index being usable in processing a Web search query from the particular user.