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Abstract

A system, apparatus, and method are provided for configuring web feeds for users/subscribers. A user identifies a topic of interest, which may be a person, organization, event, place, concept, or other thing. A content processor analyzes content items received from a multitude of publishers' feed to identify their topics. A relevance score regarding each associated topic is calculated for each of the received items and, for each user that subscribed to the topic, the item's relevance score is compared to a user-specific threshold relevance score to determine whether to add it to the user's feed. The threshold relevance score for a topic for a user is computed based on factors such as the average relevance scores of the topic's content items, the standard deviation, the user's relationship with the topic, a target frequency with which items corresponding to the topic should be offered to the user, etc.

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