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  • Automatically Creating a Custom Search Engine for a Web Site Based on Social Input
    Publication number: 20140129535
    Abstract: Automatically creating and modifying a search engine for a website. User input may be received specifying an address of a website. A search engine may be automatically created for the website based on the user input. Webpages of the website may specify a plurality of tags specifying custom attributes of the webpages. During creation of the search engine, these custom attributes may be incorporated into the search engine index. Additional user input may be received customizing the search engine for various search engine contexts, e.g., based on the custom attributes of the webpages. Search engine results for the website may be based on various ranking functions, potentially including social impact of webpages of the website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SWIFTYPE, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew T. Riley, Quinlan J. Hoxie
  • Automatically Modifying a Custom Search Engine for a Web Site Based on User Input
    Publication number: 20140129534
    Abstract: Automatically creating and modifying a search engine for a website. User input may be received specifying an address of a website. A search engine may be automatically created for the website based on the user input. Webpages of the website may specify a plurality of tags specifying custom attributes of the webpages. During creation of the search engine, these custom attributes may be incorporated into the search engine index. Additional user input may be received customizing the search engine for various search engine contexts, e.g., based on the custom attributes of the webpages. Search engine results for the website may be based on various ranking functions, potentially including social impact of webpages of the website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SWIFTYPE, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew T. Riley, Quinlan J. Hoxie
  • Automatically modifying a custom search engine for a web site based on user input
    Patent number: 8959073
    Abstract: Automatically creating and modifying a search engine for a website. User input may be received specifying an address of a website. A search engine may be automatically created for the website based on the user input. Webpages of the website may specify a plurality of tags specifying custom attributes of the webpages. During creation of the search engine, these custom attributes may be incorporated into the search engine index. Additional user input may be received customizing the search engine for various search engine contexts, e.g., based on the custom attributes of the webpages. Search engine results for the website may be based on various ranking functions, potentially including social impact of webpages of the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Swiftype, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew T. Riley, Quinlan J. Hoxie