Abstract: A method for determining a crawling schedule is disclosed, the method being executable at a crawling server coupled to a first web resource server and a second web resource server. The method comprises: acquiring a first new web page associated with the first web resource server; acquiring a second new web page associated with the second web resource server; determining a first crawling benefit parameter for the first new web page, the first crawling benefit parameter being based on a predicted popularity parameter and a predicted popularity decay parameter thereof; determining a second crawling benefit parameter for the second new web page, the second crawling benefit parameter being based on a predicted popularity parameter and a predicted popularity decay parameter thereof; based on the first crawling benefit parameter and the second crawling benefit parameter, determining a crawling order for the first new web page and the second new web page.

Abstract: There is disclosed a computer implemented method for processing a search query, the method executable by a search engine server, search engine server coupled to a crawled web resource database and a communication network. The computer implemented method aims at placing lower ranked web resources (for example, due to lack of prior user interaction with these web resources, as they may be new, etc) on the upper positions of the SERP to attract more user feedback to gather information about the lower ranked web resources. In this way, the search engine provider may improve the search results mix by giving a chance to get user feedback (and, hence, improve their scores) for more potentially highly relevant web resources (which may yet lack user interaction data to allow proper high scoring).

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of setting up a crawling schedule, the method executable at a crawling server, the crawling server coupled to a communication network, the communication network having coupled thereto a first web resource server and a second web 5 resource server.

Abstract: There is disclosed a computer implemented method for processing a search query, the method executable by a search engine server, search engine server coupled to a crawled web resource database and a communication network. The computer implemented method aims at placing lower ranked web resources (for example, due to lack of prior user interaction with these web resources, as they may be new, etc) on the upper positions of the SERP to attract more user feedback to gather information about the lower ranked web resources. In this way, the search engine provider may improve the search results mix by giving a chance to get user feedback (and, hence, improve their scores) for more potentially highly relevant web resources (which may yet lack user interaction data to allow proper high scoring).