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US 2009/0222431 A1Published application
System and/or method for personalization of searches
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorAmit Kumar
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Abstract
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and/or method for providing enhanced content search results based on metrics indicating user affinity for an information site such as a web site. Information on user visits to a particular web site may be accumulated, for example, in connection with a beacon or other tracker placed on the publisher web site. The enhanced content may be provided by the publisher web site or may be generated otherwise.
Claims24
A method comprising:
- offering to provide content to a computing platform associated with a user in response to a search query associated with said content based, at least in part, on a score of the user;
- and
- enabling access to the content in response to acceptance of the offer by the user.
An apparatus comprising:
- a server system, the server system being adapted to:
- offer to provide content to the user in response to a search query associated with said content based, at least in part, on a score of the user;
- and
- enable access to the content in response to acceptance of the offer by the user.
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An article comprising:
- a storage medium comprising machine readable instructions stored thereon which, if executed by a computing platform, are adapted to cause said computing platform to:
- offer to provide content to a user in response to a search query associated with said content based, at least in part, on a score of the user;
- and
- enable access to the content in response to acceptance of the offer by the user.
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A method comprising:
- receiving visit information for the user for at least one visit to a publisher web site;
- calculating a user score based, at least in part, on at least one criterion selected from the group consisting of;
- the number of visits of a computer platform associated with a user to at least one page of a publisher site,
- the amount of time a computing platform associated with a user is connected to a publisher web site,
- the frequency of visits of a computer platform associated with a user to at least one page of a publisher site, and
- the amount of time a computing platform associated with a user is connected to a publisher web site during a given period;
- receiving a search query from the user at a search engine web site;
- and
- providing a message inviting the user to accept enhanced content for the publisher web site based on the score.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.