• SEO by the SEA, Wednesday, November 4, 2009 2 PM

How do search engines rank user-generated content in search engine results? Bill Slawski has found a patent application that explores an approach for indexing and integrating UGC into Web search results. He tells us the patent application introduces three concepts--document goodness, author, and location--that might combine to become helpful in rankings.

Slawski also analyzes the patent to question whether signals, similar to the ones listed in the patent, might account for determining if the UGC presents certain Twitter posts for some search results.

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