Abstract:
Concepts and technologies are described herein for generating and presenting deep links. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein a search engine is configured to generate deep links associated with a site. A site is identified by the search engine and the site is analyzed by the search engine with data relating to searches of and/or usage of the site. The search engine identifies links or other resources contained in, associated with, or referenced by the site, generates deep links corresponding to the resources, and associates the deep links with the site. If a site having indexed deep links is identified in search results, the search engine identifies one or more deep links associated with the site and presents the deep links with the search results to provide a searcher with relevant resources that may not satisfy the search query submitted by the searcher.
Abstract:
The embodiments described herein generally relate to a method and system for enabling a client to configure and control the crawling function available through a crawl configuration Web service. A client is able to configure and control the crawling function by defining the URL space of the crawl. Such space may be defined by configuring the starting point(s) and other properties of the crawl. The client further configures the crawling function by creating and configuring a content source and/or a crawl rule. Further, a client defines authentication information applicable to the crawl to enable the discovery and retrieval of electronic documents requiring authentication and/or authorization information for access thereof. A protocol governs the format, structure and syntax (using a Web Services Description Language schema) of messages for communicating to and from the Web crawler through an application programming interface on a server hosting the crawler application.
Abstract:
Query suggestion and other features are provided that include using an advanced query syntax, but are not so limited. A computer-implemented query service of an embodiment, operates to provide advanced query translations and suggestions based in part on a query rewriting algorithm that uses mappings and an advanced query syntax. A query method of one embodiment operates to provide one or more advanced queries that include one or more replacement queries that contain advanced query syntax. The method of an embodiment can automatically execute a rewritten query and/or present the rewritten query to the user as a query suggestion. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Technologies are described herein for providing a more efficient approach to ranking search results. An illustrative technology reduces an amount of ranking data analyzed at query time. In the technology, a term is selected, at index time, from a master index. The term corresponds to a number of documents greater than a threshold. A set of documents that includes the term is selected based on the master index. A rank is determined for each document in the set of documents that contains the term. Each document in the set of documents that contains the term is assigned to a top document list or a bottom document list based on the rank. Predefined values of at least part of the rank are stored in the top document list for documents in the top document list and are not stored in the bottom document list for documents in the bottom document list.
Abstract:
Technologies are described herein for providing a more efficient approach to ranking search results. One method reduces an amount of ranking data analyzed at query time. In the method, a term is selected, at index time, from a master index. The term corresponds to a number of documents greater than a threshold. A set of documents that includes the term is selected based on the master index. A rank is determined for each document in the set of documents that contains the term. Each document in the set of documents that contains the term is assigned to a high ranking index or a low ranking index based on the simple rank.
Abstract:
The embodiments described herein generally relate to a method and system for enabling a client to configure and control the crawling function available through a crawl configuration Web service. A client is able to configure and control the crawling function by defining the URL space of the crawl. Such space may be defined by configuring the starting point(s) and other properties of the crawl. The client further configures the crawling function by creating and configuring a content source and/or a crawl rule. Further, a client defines authentication information applicable to the crawl to enable the discovery and retrieval of electronic documents requiring authentication and/or authorization information for access thereof. A protocol governs the format, structure and syntax (using a Web Services Description Language schema) of messages for communicating to and from the Web crawler through an application programming interface on a server hosting the crawler application.
Abstract:
Embodiments are configured to provide a summary of information associated with one or more search results. In an embodiment, a system includes a summary generator that can be configured to provide a summary of information including one or more snippets associated with a search term or search terms. The system includes a ranking component that can be used to rank snippets and the ranked snippets can be used when generating a summary that includes one or more ranked snippets. In one embodiment, the system can be configured to include one or more filters that can be used to filter snippets and the filtered snippets can be used when generating a summary. Other embodiments are available.
Abstract:
A process takes advantage of a structure of a server hosting a network site that includes a change log stored in a database to batch index documents for search queries. The content of the site is batched and shipped in bulk from the server to an indexer. The change log keeps track of the changes to the content of the site. The indexer incrementally requests updates to the index using the change log and batches the changes so that the bandwidth usage and processor overhead costs are reduced.
Abstract:
A mechanism for expressing a user preference to a set of documents based on user knowledge about the document corpora. The user preference input to the system can be positive, negative, or both. A set of documents that can be identified with a query can define a search scope definition. The search scope is mapped into an input ranking feature for a ranking function. The search scope definition is employed as a soft preference ranking feature, and thus, used to bias ranking via relevance feedback. The mechanism facilitates increasing or decreasing the final ranking score of a document based on whether the document falls into the user scope. The ranking weight can be configured by the user ad-hoc, or when relevance judgments are available, using machine learning techniques to find the optimal weights to optimize ranking.
Abstract:
Architecture that extracts author information from general documents and uses the author information for search results ranking. The architecture performs automatic author value extraction and makes the extracted value available at index time for subsequent use at query processing and results ranking. Machine learning (e.g., a perceptron algorithm) is employed and a set of input features for the perceptron algorithm utilized for author value extraction. The extracted author value is converted into a feature for input a ranking function for generating a ranking score for each document. The input features can also be weighted according to weighting criteria.