Identifying affiliated domains
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsWenxin Li, Michelangelo Diligenti, Trystan Upstill
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for identifying affiliated domains. A method includes identifying a plurality of domains, where each domain is associated with a particular hostname and each domain includes one or more resources, identifying a set of one or more linked domains, designating one or more domains within the set of linked domains as being affiliated with the first domain, and storing the domain affiliation information. Linked domains are domains from the plurality of domains that are linked to the first domain, and a second domain is linked to the first domain if one of the first or the second domains includes resources containing navigation links to resources of the other domain.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving initial search results from a user search query including an ordered list of results, each result corresponding to a web domain;
- determining a particular location for a user;
- identifying a plurality of local domains, each local domain being a web domain that corresponds to the particular location of the user;
- identifying a first result within the list of results corresponding to a first web domain, the first web domain being a local domain;
- identifying a second result within the list of results corresponding to a second web domain designated as affiliated with the first domain, where the first domain has a same second level domain as the second domain, where the second domain is affiliated if it is linked to the first domain, and where the second domain is linked to the first domain if one of the first or the second domains includes resources containing one or more hyperlinks to resources of the other domain;
- modifying the ordered list of results by altering one or more positions of the results, including altering a position of the second result, that correspond to a domain affiliated with one of the local domains within the list of results using one or more processors;
- and
- presenting the list of results to the user.
A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
- receiving initial search results from a user search query including an ordered list of results, each result corresponding to a web domain;
- determining a particular location for a user;
- identifying a plurality of local domains, each local domain being a web domain that corresponds to the particular location of the user;
- identifying a first result within the list of results corresponding to a first web domain, the first web domain being a local domain;
- identifying a second result within the list of results corresponding to a second web domain designated as affiliated with the first domain, where the first domain has a same second level domain as the second domain, where the second domain is affiliated if it is linked to the first domain, and where the second domain is linked to the first domain if one of the first or the second domains includes resources containing one or more hyperlinks to resources of the other domain,
- modifying the ordered list of results by altering one or more positions of the results, including altering a position of the second result, that correspond to a domain affiliated with the one of the local domains within the list of results;
- and
- presenting the list of results to the user.
A system, comprising:
- one or more computers;
- and
- one or more storage devices storing instructions that when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
- receiving initial search results from a user search query including an ordered list of results, each result corresponding to a web domain;
- determining a particular location for a user;
- identifying a plurality of local domains, each local domain being a web domain that corresponds to the particular location of the user;
- identifying a first result within the list of results corresponding to a first web domain, the first web domain being a local domain;
- identifying a second result within the list of results corresponding to a second web domain designated as affiliated with the first domain, where the first domain has a same second level domain as the second domain, where the second domain is affiliated if it is linked to the first domain, and where the second domain is linked to the first domain if one of the first or the second domains includes resources containing one or more hyperlinks to resources of the other domain,
- modifying the ordered list of results by altering one or more positions of the results, including altering a position of the second result, that correspond to a domain affiliated with one or more local domains within the list of results;
- and
- presenting the list of results to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.