| google is granted panted to rank items for searches on the desktop
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nealrodriguez
msg:3907153 | 3:00 pm on May 5, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Temporal ranking scheme for desktop searching [patft.uspto.gov] | A system for searching an object environment includes harvesting and indexing applications to create a search database and one or more indexes into the database. |
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they will rank items based on their frequency of use: | A ranking scheme sorts searchable items according to an estimate of the frequency that the items will be used in the future. |
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it brings to mind the frequency of use metric labeling programs in 'add or remove programs' interface. | A computer program product for ranking an item among a group of items for a desktop search, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium containing computer program code for performing a method comprising: if the item has been previously opened using the desktop search, assigning a score to the item based on the time it was last opened using the desktop search; otherwise, assigning a score to the item based on a last-use date and penalizing the score based on a class associated with the item, the class indicating a frequency of use of the item; and displaying the item in response to a search query, the item displayed according to the score, wherein the item is an application, and the last-use date is the time the application was last launched. |
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it appears that google is aggressively moving towards user activity, while even ranking items on the search results, as last week's filing on 'Improving a Search Ranking Using Related Queries' connotes: [webmasterworld.com...]
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