| US 7,533,119 B2 | ||
| Associating documents with classifications and ranking documents based on classification weights | ||
| Hongyuan Zha, State College, Pa. (US); and Sean Suchter, San Mateo, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 18, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/335,076. | ||
| Application 11/335076 is a division of application No. 10/262519, filed on Sep. 30, 2002, granted, now 7,028,027. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/411567, filed on Sep. 17, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0129550 A1, Jun. 15, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—102 [707/100; 707/101] | 6 Claims |
| 1. A method of associating a particular host with one or more regions, the method comprising:
determining if a top-level domain of the particular host is a regional top-level domain; and
if the top-level domain of the particular host is not a regional top-level domain, then determining one or more regions associated
with the host based on which other hosts contain documents that reference documents on said host;
wherein the step of determining one or more regions associated with the host based on which other hosts contain documents
that reference documents on said host includes the steps of:
determining a diversity of domains in which there are other hosts that link to the particular host;
determining whether the diversity is greater than a specified threshold; and
if the diversity is greater than the specified threshold, then associating the particular host with a classification value
that indicates that the particular host is of equivalent interest to multiple regions.
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