Ranking search results using biased click distance

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Methods for ranking search results in response to a search query using biased click distances , are provided. Documents or nodes in a network which can be identified as , being either authoritative or non-authoritative, are each ranked according to their relevance score to a , given search query using biased click distance values which are calculated based on the lesser , of first and second click distance values. Where the first click distance value is a function of a , number of links that need to be followed to create a path from a first nonauthoritative , document or node to a first authoritative document or node and the second , click distance , value is a function of a number of …