Ordering of ranked documents

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for distributing and presenting of electronic content. One method provides an enhanced ordering of ranked documents, in which one or more lists of documents that have been published in a web feed, a time that each document was published in the web feed, and a content-based ranking of a ranked subset of the documents are obtained, the documents collectively including ranked documents which are members of the ranked subset of the documents, and unranked documents which are not members of the ranked subset of the documents. Furthermore, a user interface is provided which displays links to a plurality of the ranked documents, ordered according to the content-based ranking, and which simultaneously displays links to a plurality of the unranked documents, ordered chronologically based on the time that each respective document was published in the web feed.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . (canceled) 
     
     
         2 . A computer-implemented method comprising:
 identifying, for one or more of a plurality of documents that were published in a web feed, a publication time that the document was published in the web feed;   identifying, for one or more of the documents that were published in the web feed a content-based rank that is assigned to the document by the web feed;   determining, by one or more servers, a presentation rank for the plurality of the documents that were published in the web feed, wherein, for a first subset of the plurality of documents that are to be output in content-based-rank order, the presentation rank of the document is based on the content-based rank that is assigned to the document by the web feed, and wherein, for a different, second subset of the plurality of documents that are to be output differently based on other ranks, the presentation rank of the document is based on the publication time that the document was published in the web feed; and   transmitting, to a client device, links to the first subset and second subset of the documents, wherein the links are ordered according to the respective presentation rank of each document.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the content-based ranking of a document is based on an editorial ranking of the document. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the content-based ranking of a document is based on a reader ranking of the document. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the reader ranking of the document comprises a quantitative ranking assigned by the reader to the document. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the reader ranking comprises a numeric count of qualitative comments entered by readers on the document. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the content-based ranking of a document is further based on an editorial ranking. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the first subset includes fewer than all of the editorially ranked documents. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the second subset includes one or more editorially ranked documents. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the links to the first subset and second subset are included in a single list of links. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the links include at least one link to a document in the second subset. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the links to the first subset are separated from the links to the second subset by a fold. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein one of the documents in the first subset is included in the second subset and one of the documents in the second submit is included in the first subset. 
     
     
         14 . A computer-readable medium, comprising software instructions that when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
 identifying, for each of a plurality of documents that were published in a web feed, a publication time that the document was published in the web feed;   identifying, for each of a plurality of the documents that were published in the web feed and that are assigned a content-based rank, the content-based rank that is assigned to the document by the web feed;   determining, by one or more servers, a presentation rank for each of the plurality of the documents that were published in the web feed, wherein, for a first subset of the plurality of documents that are to be output in content-based-rank order, the presentation rank of the document is based on the content-based rank that is assigned to the document by the web feed, and wherein, for a second subset of the plurality of documents that are to not be output in content-based-rank order, the presentation rank of the document is based on a priority ranking assigned by the web feed; and   transmitting, to a client device, links to the first subset and second subset of the documents, wherein the links are ordered according to the respective presentation rank of each document.   
     
     
         15 . The computer-readable medium of  claim 14 , wherein the content-based ranking of a document is based on an editorial ranking of the document. 
     
     
         16 . The computer-readable medium of  claim 15 , wherein the content-based ranking of a document is further based on a reader ranking. 
     
     
         17 . The computer-readable medium of  claim 14 , wherein the links to the first subset and second subset are included in a single list of links. 
     
     
         18 . A computer-implemented system comprising one or more servers that are configured to:
 identify, for each of a plurality of documents that were published in a web feed, a publication time that the document was published in the web feed;   identify, for each of a plurality of the documents that were published in the web feed and that are assigned a content-based rank, the content-based rank that is assigned to the document by the web feed;   determine a presentation rank for each of the plurality of the documents that were published in the web feed, wherein, for a first subset of the plurality of documents that are to be output in content-based-rank order, the presentation rank of the document is based on the content-based rank that is assigned to the document by the web feed, and wherein, for a second subset of the plurality of documents that are to not be output in content-based-rank order, the presentation rank of the document is based on a priority ranking assigned by the web feed; and   transmit, to a client device, links to the first subset and second subset of the documents, wherein the links are ordered according to the respective presentation rank of each document.   
     
     
         19 . The computer-implemented system of  claim 18 , wherein the content-based ranking of a document is based on an editorial ranking of the document. 
     
     
         20 . The computer-readable medium of  claim 19 , wherein the content-based ranking of a document is further based on a reader ranking. 
     
     
         21 . The computer-implemented system of  claim 18 , wherein the links to the first subset and second subset are included in a single list of links.