Apple Inc.
Domain based influence scoring

Abstract:

Methods and systems that create domain influence scores that can be used to rank or sort search results are described. In one embodiment, a domain influence scoring system begins by preselecting a subset of the domains and allocating an initial influence score to only the domains in the subset while all other domains have an initial influence score of zero. Then links to pages are counted to update the influence scores of each domain. Further, one or more blacklists can be used to modify updating of the influence scores.