tedster - 7:51 pm on Apr 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

Yep, that same section appears in the other patents, too. The bullet-point quote I pasted in above is the Abstract for the traffic patent. Somehow these four patents are entangled, with each being a piece of a bigger purpose. The stated purposes of the patents, according to their Abstracts, seem to be:

1. Traffic: scoring based on advertising on the page
2. Query Analysis: which search result gets the click
3. Link-Based: freshness, staleness and churn around links
4. Document Inception Date: methods for determing when a document was published

Does this all point to methods for an attack on paid links?