Client-Side Personalization of Search Results

A non-transitory computer readable medium including one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:

• generating, by a computing device, combined search results that include search results items obtained from local sources on the computing device and from a remote server device, wherein each of the search results items include a plurality of attributes;
• generating, by the computing device, a ranking score for each of the combined search results items, where a particular ranking score for a particular combined search result item is generated based on the corresponding attributes for the particular combined search results item;
• determining, by the computing device, a relevance value for each of the combined search results items based on information describing recent user behavior;
• generating, by the computing device, a personalization score for each of the combined search results items, where a particular personalization score for a particular combined search result item is generated based on the ranking score and the relevance value corresponding to the particular combined search results item;
• and
• presenting, by the computing device, the combined search results items based on the personalization score generated for each of the combined search results items.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable medium including one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:
• generating, by a computing device, combined search results that include search results items obtained from local sources on the computing device and from a remote server device, wherein each of the search results items include a plurality of attributes;
• generating, by the computing device, a ranking score for each of the combined search results items, where a particular ranking score for a particular combined search result item is generated based on the corresponding attributes for the particular combined search results item;
• determining, by the computing device, a relevance value for each of the combined search results items based on information describing recent user behavior;
• generating, by the computing device, a personalization score for each of the combined search results items, where a particular personalization score for a particular combined search result item is generated based on the ranking score and the relevance value corresponding to the particular combined search results item;
• and
• presenting, by the computing device, the combined search results items based on the personalization score generated for each of the combined search results items.