USING ANCHOR TEXT WITH HYPERLINK STRUCTURES FOR WEB SEARCHES

Patent №

US 8,380,722

Granted

2013-02-19

Filed 2010

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12748903

This document describes tools for adjusting anchor text weight to provide more relevant search engine results. Specifically, these tools take advantage of a site-relationship model to consider relationships not only between an anchor text source site and a destination page but also relationships between multiple anchor text source sites to improve web searches. Consideration of these relationships aids in determining a new an anchor text weight, which in turn results in more relevant search results.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation0.97
Planning0.79
AI hardware0.14
Evolutionary computation0.07
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 242990618

Assignors

DOU, ZHICHENG, CHEN, JUNYAN, SONG, RUIHUA, WEN, JI-RONG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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