This Google patent has the status "Application status is active". It describes how a search engine can rank documents under the influence of a credibility factor and the author's reputation score. The following possible signals for a reputation score are mentioned:
how long the author has been demonstrably producing content in a subject area
fame of the author
Ratings of published content by users
If the author's content is published by another publisher with above-average ratings
The number of articles published by the author
How long ago the author last published something
The reviews of previous publications on similar topics by the author
Further interesting information about the reputation score from the patent:
An author can have multiple reputation scores depending on how many different topics he publishes content on.
An author’s reputation score is independent of the publisher.
The reputation score may be downgraded if duplicate content or excerpts are published multiple times.
The reputation score can be influenced by the number of links to the published content.
The patent also addresses a credibility factor for authors. Verified information about the author's profession or role in a company is relevant for this. The credibility of the company also plays a role. The relevance of the author's profession to the topics of the published content is also crucial for the author's credibility. The author's level of education and training can also have a decisive influence here.
The verified information about the author can include the number of other publications of the author that are relevant to the author’s online content item. The verified information about the author poland phone number data can include the number of citations to the author’s online content item that are made in other publications of one or more different authors. The verified information about the author can include information about awards and recognition of the author in one or more fields. The credibility factor can be further based on the relevancy of the one or more fields to the author’s online content item. The verified information about the author can include feedback received about the author or the author’s online content item from one or more organizations. The credibility factor can be further based on the relevancy of the one or more organizations to the author’s online content item and the feedback received. The verified information about the author can include revenue information about the author’s online content item.
Systems and Methods for Re-Ranking ranked Search Results
This Google patent was signed in August 2018. It describes the refinement of search results based on an author scoring including a citation scoring. The citation scoring is based on the number of references to an author's documents. Another criterion for the author scoring is the proportion of content that an author has contributed to a corpus of documents.
wherein determining the author score for a respective entity includes: determining a citation score for the respective entity, wherein the citation score corresponds to a frequency at which content associated with the respective entity is cited; determining an original author score for the respective entity, wherein the original author score corresponds to a percentage of content associated with the respective entity that is a first instance of the content in an index of known content; and combining the citation score and the original author score using a predetermined function to produce the author score;