Systems and methods for promoting personalized search results based on personal information

A computer system for producing personalized search results, comprising:

• memory;
• one or more processors;
• one or more programs stored in the memory and configured for execution by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including:
• instructions for receiving a search query from a user;
• instructions for identifying a list of search results associated with the search query, wherein each search result has an initial position in the list;
• instructions for identifying a user profile associated with the user, wherein the user profile includes a set of user-preferred search results determined, at least in part, by:
• instructions for identifying a set of candidate search results in a search history of the user, wherein each of the candidate search results has been selected by the user for at least a predefined minimum number of times;
• instructions for determining a popularity metric for each of the candidate search results;
• and
• instructions for selecting a subset of the candidate search results whose associated popularity metrics exceed a predefined threshold as the set of user-preferred search results;
• instructions for identifying in the list of search results, one or more search results that are associated with at least one of the user-preferred search results;
• instructions for reordering the list of search results by moving each of the identified search results from its initial position by an offset;
• and
• instructions for providing the reordered list of search results to the user.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs to be executed by a computer system, the one or more programs comprising:

• instructions for receiving a search query from a user;
• instructions for identifying a list of search results associated with the search query, wherein each search result has an initial position in the list;
• instructions for identifying a user profile associated with the user, wherein the user profile includes a set of user-preferred search results determined, at least in part, by:
• instructions for identifying a set of candidate search results in a search history of the user, wherein each of the candidate search results has been selected by the user for at least a predefined minimum number of times;
• instructions for determining a popularity metric for each of the candidate search results;
• and
• instructions for selecting a subset of the candidate search results whose associated popularity metrics exceed a predefined threshold as the set of user-preferred search results;
• instructions for identifying in the list of search results, one or more search results that are associated with at least one of the user-preferred search results;
• instructions for reordering the list of search results by moving each of the identified search results from its initial position by an offset;
• and
• instructions for providing the reordered list of search results to the user.

A computer system for producing personalized search results comprising:

• memory;
• one or more processors;
• one or more programs stored in the memory and configured for execution by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including:
• means for receiving a search query from a user;
• means for identifying a list of search results associated with the search query, wherein each search result has an initial position in the list;
• means for identifying a user profile associated with the user, wherein the user profile includes a set of user-preferred search results determined, at least in part, by:
• means for identifying a set of candidate search results in a search history of the user, wherein each of the candidate search results has been selected by the user for at least a predefined minimum number of times;
• means for determining a popularity metric for each of the candidate search results;
• and
• means for selecting a subset of the candidate search results whose associated popularity metrics exceed a predefined threshold as the set of user-preferred search results;
• means for identifying in the list of search results, one or more search results that are associated with at least one of the user-preferred search results;
• means for reordering the list of search results by moving each of the identified search results from its initial position by an offset;
• and
• means for providing the reordered list of search results to the user.