US 2014/0280098 A1 · PERFORMING APPLICATION SEARCH BASED ON APPLICATION GAMINESS

Abstract

An application search system compensates for game bias in search results using a gaminess value representing the likelihood that an application is a game. The application search system receives a gaminess value for an application from an external source, such as an operator, or automatically determines the gaminess value using a trained computer model. The computer model may be trained based on a supervised training set of data. The gaminess value of an application is used to determine relevance of applications responsive to a search query. In one configuration, the gaminess value is incorporated as a scoring feature by the application search system in a computer-learned relevance search. The gaminess value may be used as a relevance factor even when the search does not indicate a user's desire to search for a game.

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Dependent claims

A computer program product for performing application search, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed cause at least one processor to perform steps comprising:

receiving data from one or more data sources for one or more applications;
determining one or more gaminess values for the one or more applications based at least in part on the received data, wherein a gaminess value indicates the likelihood that an application is a game;
receiving a search query including one or more search terms from a user device;
identifying a consideration set of applications based on the search query from the one or more applications;
generating a result score for each application in the identified set based at least in part on the gaminess value for the application in the identified set;
ranking the identified set of applications based on the relevancy score;
and
providing a listing of the ranked set of applications to the user device.

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Performing application search based on application gaminess

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Performing application search based on application gaminess

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