International Business Machines Corporation
Comparing keywords to determine the relevance of a link in text

Abstract:

A method of checking a link in a body of text comprises receiving the text and detecting a link to an external source within the received text. At least a portion of the received text is selected for analysis and one or more important keywords within the selected portion of the received text are determined. Text is obtained from the external source by accessing the link. At least a portion of the obtained text is selected for analysis and one or more important keywords within the selected portion of the obtained text are determined. The more important keywords within the selected portion of the original received text are compared with the important keywords within the selected portion of the obtained text from the link, and an output is provided depending upon the result of the comparison of the one or more important keywords within the selected portion of the received text with the one or more important keywords within the selected portion of the obtained text.