System and method of geo-based prediction in search result selection
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsRosie Jones, Fernando Diaz, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah
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Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for determining a prediction measurement, or measure, using geo-spatial information which can be used to determine whether or not to include type of information in search results. The prediction measurement comprises a measure of the likelihood that an item of the type of information for which the prediction measure is determined will be selected, or clicked on, by a user, if the item of the type of information is included in the search result. Without limitation, one such information type is news.
Claims36
A method comprising:
- collecting information using a received query, the information comprises geo-spatial information;
- and
- calculating a prediction measure using the collected information, the prediction measure being a measure of the likelihood that a user will select a type of information returned in response to the query.
A system comprising:
- a feature extractor configured to collect information using a received query, the information comprises geo-spatial information;
- and
- a prediction engine configured to calculate a prediction measure using the collected information, the prediction measure being a measure of the likelihood that a user will select a type of information returned in response to the query.
A computer-readable medium tangibly storing program code thereon, the program code comprising:
- code to collect information using a received query, the information comprises geo-spatial information;
- and
- code to calculate a prediction measure using the collected information, the prediction measure being a measure of the likelihood that a user will select a type of information returned in response to the query.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.