Search engine with webpage rating feedback based internet search operation

Abstract

Feedback of a web page quality/legitimacy factor, various user interaction parameters, a contact address correlation factor, and an explicit web page rating on the reverse path from the client to the severs for Internet search operations improve the quality of websites/web pages and enhances the efficiency of the Internet search operation. This reverse communication also allows for the automatic blockage of any illegitimate websites due to poor “contact address correlation factor” and poor “web page quality factor.” The rating of the websites is based on a computed number called “web page quality factor.” The “web page quality factor” is communicated in the reverse path of Internet search operation back to various Whois servers, domain registrars, and web servers on the Internet to further improve quality. This facilitates the filtering of scammers, squatters, illegal/unwanted sites, etc., which have low “web page quality factor” rating resulting in high efficiency of search operations.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computing device comprising:
 processing circuitry; and   memory, the processing circuitry and memory operable to:
 receive malware report data regarding Internet content from a plurality of client devices; 
 receive user interaction parameter data associated with the Internet content from the plurality of client devices; 
 compute a contact address correlation factor associated with the Internet content based on a correlation of an Internet content based first contact address with a company registrant database based second contact address; 
 compute at least one web page quality factor associated with the Internet content based on the malware report data, the user interaction parameter data, and the contact address correlation factor; and 
 process a plurality of web page quality factors to support management of the Internet content based on corresponding web page quality factors. 
   
     
     
         2 . The computing device of  claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry and memory are further operable to create the company registrant database by Whois database crawling and storing Whois registration records of a plurality of business firms. 
     
     
         3 . The computing device of  claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry and memory are further operable to send requests to a Whois database server for business firms to update web page content based upon web page quality factors. 
     
     
         4 . The computing device of  claim 1 , wherein the malware report data comprises malware type regarding the Internet content. 
     
     
         5 . The computing device of  claim 4 , wherein the processing circuitry and memory are further operable to provide a warning to at least one client device of the plurality of client devices identifying malware and a corresponding malware type. 
     
     
         6 . The computing device of  claim 4 , wherein the user interaction parameter data comprises at least one of visit duration, duration between selections, link steps on a web page, specific item selection on a web page, “backward” command frequency, and “forward” command frequency. 
     
     
         7 . The computing device of  claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry and memory are further operable to compute at least one contact address correlation factor using a web page based contact address and a Whois database based contact address. 
     
     
         8 . The computing device of  claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry and memory are further operable to assist in dropping Internet content from a search result list when the contact address correlation factor associated with the Internet content compares unfavorably to a threshold. 
     
     
         9 . The computing device of  claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry and memory are further operable to determine Internet content is illegitimate when the contact address correlation factor associated with the Internet content compares unfavorably to a threshold. 
     
     
         10 . A method performed by a search engine server comprising:
 receiving a search string, a search category, and a search region from a client device;   transmitting a list of search results to the client device that identifies of a plurality of web pages;   receiving a selection of a web page from the plurality of web pages from the client device;   receiving user interaction parameters from the client device corresponding to the selected web page;   receiving a malware report from the client device for the selected web page;   determining a contact address correlation factor based on a correlation between contact address information from the selected web page and registered information for the web page; and   determining determine a web page quality factor based upon the malware report, the contact address correlation factor, and user interaction parameters; and   based upon the web page quality factor, determining not to include the selected web page in subsequent search results.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein:
 the list of search results includes search results selected based on the search string, search category, and the search region; and   the list of search results is preprocessed prior to the providing, preprocessing involving removing, from the list of search results, particular search results associated with an Internet-based quality factor having a value below a predetermined threshold.   
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising communicating the user interaction parameters regarding the selected web page to a web page quality factor computing module of the search engine server. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising communicates the malware report to a web page quality factor computing module of the search engine server. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising:
 retrieving contact address information from the selected web page,   retrieving registered information from an aggregate Whois database, and   determining the contact address correlation factor based on a correlation between the contact address information and the registered information.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein a negative malware report, the contact address correlation factor, and user interaction parameters are communicated to a registered owner of the selected web page for corrective measures to be taken. 
     
     
         16 . A method performed by a computing device comprising:
 receive malware report data regarding Internet content from a plurality of client devices;   receive user interaction parameter data associated with the Internet content from the plurality of client devices;   computing a contact address correlation factor associated with the Internet content based on a correlation of an Internet content based first contact address with a company registrant database based second contact address;   computing at least one web page quality factor associated with the Internet content based on the malware report data, the user interaction parameter data, and the contact address correlation factor; and   processing a plurality of web page quality factors to support management of the Internet content based on corresponding web page quality factors.   
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 16 , further comprising creating the company registrant database by Whois database crawling and storing Whois registration records of a plurality of business firms. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 16 , further comprising sending requests to a Whois database server for business firms to update web page content based upon web page quality factors. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 16 , wherein the malware report data comprises malware type regarding the Internet content. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 19 , further comprising transmitting a warning to at least one client device of the plurality of client devices identifying malware and a corresponding malware type. 
     
     
         21 . The method of  claim 19 , wherein the user interaction parameter data comprises at least one of visit duration, duration between selections, link steps on a web page, specific item selection on a web page, “backward” command frequency, and “forward” command frequency. 
     
     
         22 . The method of  claim 16 , further comprising computing at least one contact address correlation factor using a web page based contact address and a Whois database based contact address. 
     
     
         23 . The method of  claim 16 , further comprising assisting in dropping Internet content from a search result list when the contact address correlation factor associated with the Internet content compares unfavorably to a threshold. 
     
     
         24 . The method of  claim 16 , further comprising determining that Internet content is illegitimate when the contact address correlation factor associated with the Internet content compares unfavorably to a threshold.