US 8,898,152 B1Granted

Sharing search engine relevance data

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsEugene Ie, Xuefu Wang, Daniel J. Clancy

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Abstract

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for providing a query to a search engine for searching a corpus of documents. A plurality of result documents are received from the search engine, each result document associated with a ranking. For a first document in the plurality, the following is performed. First, a second document in a second corpus is identified as containing content that identifies the same physical object as the first document. The second document was included in a plurality of result documents responsive to a second query of the second corpus, similar to the first query. Second, a new ranking is determined for the first document based on its ranking and relevance data associated with the second document. The relevance data is indicative of the second document's popularity as a result for the second query.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

identifying, by a computing system, a particular search result that was determined, along with a plurality of first search results, to be responsive to a first query, wherein the particular search result corresponds to a particular result document and each first search result of the first search results corresponds to a respective first result document, wherein the particular result document is a particular web page and the particular search result is configured to provide navigation to the particular web page upon user selection of the particular search result from among a presentation of multiple search results;
identifying, by the computing system, a second result document that is associated with the particular result document due to the second result document including content that identifies an object that is also identified by content included in the particular result document, wherein a second search result corresponds to the second result document;
identifying, by the computing system, second relevance data that indicates a popularity of the second search result as a selection by a second population of users as a result for a second query that is identical to the first query or similar to the first query;
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determining, by the computing system, a score for the particular search result based on (i) first relevance data that indicates a popularity of the particular search result as a selection by a first population of users as a result for the first query, and (ii) the second relevance data that indicates the popularity of the second search result as the selection by the second population of users as the result for the second query.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of operations comprising:

identifying, by a computing system, a particular search result that was determined, along with a plurality of first search results, to be responsive to a first query, wherein the particular search result corresponds to a particular result document and each first search result of the first search results corresponds to a respective first result document, wherein the particular result document is a particular web page and the particular search result is configured to provide navigation to the particular web page upon user selection of the particular search result from among a presentation of multiple search results;
identifying, by the computing system, a second result document that is associated with the particular result document due to the second result document including content that identifies an object that is also identified by content included in the particular result document, wherein a second search result corresponds to the second result document;
identifying, by the computing system, second relevance data that indicates a popularity of the second search result as a selection by a second population of users as a result for a second query that is identical to the first query or similar to the first query;
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determining, by the computing system, a score for the particular search result based on (i) first relevance data that indicates a popularity of the particular search result as a selection by a first population of users as a result for the first query, and (ii) the second relevance data that indicates the popularity of the second search result as the selection by the second population of users as the result for the second query.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.