METHOD FOR SEARCH ENGINES TO RANK FORUMS AND DISCUSSION BOARDS

摘要

A search engine method, performed by one or more server devices, for improving relevancy in ranking search results for forums and discussion boards. In one aspect of the invention, the method weights selected posts using one or more parameters for forums and discussion boards, where a post to a forum or a discussion board has certain properties that are typically associated with forums and discussion boards. Unlike, other methods, the disclosed method is largely content driven, and the method drills down to estimate relevancy, and the posts properties are analyzed to as to how much they should contribute to the ranking.