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US 2008/0168053 A1Published application
Method for improving quality of search results by avoiding indexing sections of pages
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsPriyank S. Garg, Amit J. Basu, Timothy M. Converse
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for improving search results is provided. The method works by delineating sections of a document that are not relevant to the main content. The document content is subjected to ranking analysis in entirety. In response to a query results are recalled omitting terms included in the no-recall sections. Terms in the no-recall sections are not used in titles and abstracts of the results. The results are ordered at least in part by the rankings attributed to the identified no-recall sections.
Claims14
A method, comprising:
- ranking a plurality of documents recalled by a search engine for a query;
- wherein the plurality of documents contain certain documents, each document of said certain documents containing at least one section that is not used by said search engine for recall and one or more sections that are used by said search engine for recall;
- and
- wherein ranking a plurality of documents includes ranking said plurality of documents based, at least in part, on the one or more sections of said certain documents not used by said search engine to recall documents.
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