13. The method of claim 1 , the given URL being a part of a set of search results, the method further comprising: requesting the usefulness prediction in connection with the given URL; determining whether or not to remove the given URL from the set of search results using the usefulness prediction generated in connection with the given URL.
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: training a usefulness prediction model to generate a usefulness prediction in connection with a given universal resource locator (URL), the training of the usefulness prediction model comprising: inputting a training set of URLs, determining the quantity of negative URLs and positive URLs identified by the training set, extracting one or more features from the URLs in the training set, counting the number of times each feature occurs in said positive URLs, counting the number of times each feature occurs in said negative URLs, and using the quantities of positive and negative URLs, the number of times the features occurred in said positive and negative URLs, the one or more features extracted from the given URL and the usefulness prediction model to generate the usefulness prediction in connection with the given URL.