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• US 10,002,201 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2015
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Piscitello, John, Wang, Xuefu, Tong, Simon, Hagan, Breen
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuddus, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US14/862,399
• Publication Number:
  US 20160012112A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3331 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3332 Query translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access

Abstract

Methods and systems allow users to enter natural language terms that describe a particular web site into an address field of a browser instead of a formal URL. The terms are evaluated to determine whether they correspond, with a high likelihood, to a particular web site. If so, this web site may be immediately accessed. If not, a list of search results based on the terms may be displayed by the browser.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

determining that, among a set of search results that include multiple search results and are each identified as at least potentially relevant by a search engine in response to a search query submitted to the search engine and based on content of a document associated with each search result, one single search result is classified by the search engine as very relevant to the search query based on at least one parameter, calculated by the search engine, that determines relevancy; and

in response to determining that, among the set of search results that include multiple search results and that are each identified as at least potentially relevant by the search engine, based on the content of the document associated with each search result and in response to the search query submitted to the search engine, one single search result is classified by the search engine as very relevant to the search query, automatically outputting a web page that is referenced by the one single, search result that is classified by the search engine as very relevant to the search query, rather than providing a search results page that references a subset of the set of search results that are each identified as at least potentially relevant based on the content of the document associated with each search result and in response to the search query, the one single search result is classified as very relevant based on a relevance score for the result relative to relevance scores for other search results in a ranked list of search results;

wherein

automatically outputting the web page that is references by the one single, search result includes providing instructions that cause a client device to provide the web page to the user for display directly after the client device displays a page for the user to submit a search query to the search engine.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising classifying the one single search result as very relevant to the search query based on a parameter that is an observed historical click through rate associated with the one single search result, the one single search result being one of the one or more search results that are each classified as at least potentially relevant to the search query.

3. The method of claim 2, comprising calculating the observed historical click through rate as a ratio representing a total number of times users have selected the one single search result to a total number of times users have selected a second search result different from the one single search result.

4. The method of claim 2, comprising calculating the observed historical click through rate as a ratio representing a total number of times users have selected the one single search result in response to a search query to a total number of times users have selected other search results in response to the search query, the other search results being different from the one single search result.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein providing instructions that cause a client device to provide the web page to the user for display directly after the client device displays a page for the user to submit a search query to the search engine comprises:

providing instructions that cause a web browser on the client device to display the web page.

6. A system comprising:

one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are configured to, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

determining that, among a set of search results that include multiple search results and are each identified as at least potentially relevant by a search engine in response to a search query submitted to the search engine and based on content of a document associated with each search result, one single search result is classified by the search engine as very relevant to the search query based on at least one parameter, calculated by the search engine, that determines relevancy; and

in response to determining that, among the set of search results that include multiple search results and are each identified as at least potentially relevant by the search engine, based on the content of the document associated with each search result and in response to the search query submitted to the search engine, one single search result is classified by the search engine as very relevant to the search query, automatically outputting a web page that is referenced by the one single, search result that is classified by the search engine as very relevant to the search query, rather than providing a search results page that references a subset of the set of search results that are each identified as at least potentially relevant based on the content of the document associated with each search result and in response to the search query, the one single search result is classified as very relevant based on a relevance score for the result relative to relevance scores for other search results in a ranked list of search results;

wherein automatically outputting the web page that is referenced by the one single, search result includes providing instructions that cause a client device to provide the web page to the user for display directly after the client device displays a page for the user to submit a search query to the search engine.

7. The system of claim 6, the operations comprising classifying the one single search result as very relevant to the search query based on a parameter that is an observed historical click through rate associated with the one single search result, the one single search result being one of the one or more search results that are each classified as at least potentially relevant to the search query.

8. The system of claim 7, the operations comprising calculating the observed historical click through rate as a ratio representing a total number of times users have selected the one single search result to a total number of times users have selected a second search result different from the one single search result.

9. The system of claim 8, the operations comprising calculating the observed historical click through rate as a ratio representing a total number of times users have selected the one single search result in response to a search query to a total number of times users have selected other search results in response to the search query, the other search results being different from the one single search result.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein providing instructions that cause a client device to provide the web page to the user for display directly after the client device displays a page for the user to submit a search query is submitted to the search engine comprises:

providing instructions that cause a web browser on the client device to display the web page without additional input from the user after the search query is submitted to the search engine.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

determining that, among a set of search results that include multiple search results and that are each identified as at least potentially relevant by a search engine in response to a search query submitted to the search engine and based on content of a document associated with each search result, one single search result is classified by the search engine as very relevant to the search query based on at least one parameter, calculated by the search engine, that determines relevancy; and

in response to determining that, among the set of search results that include multiple search results and are each identified as at least potentially relevant by the search engine, based on the content of the document associated with each search result and in response to the search query submitted to the search engine, one single search result is classified by the search engine as very relevant to the search query, automatically outputting a web page that is referenced by the one single search result that is classified by the search engine as very relevant to the search query, rather than providing a search results page that references a subset of the set of search results that are each identified as at least potentially relevant based on the content of the document associated with each search result and in response to the search query, the one single search result is classified as very relevant based on a relevance score for the result relative to relevance scores for other search results in a ranked list of search results;

wherein automatically outputting the web page that is referenced by the one single search result includes providing instructions that cause a client device to provide the web page to the user for display directly after the client device displays a page for the user to submit a search query to the search engine.

12. The medium of claim 11, the operations comprising classifying the one single search result as very relevant to the search query based on a parameter that is an observed historical click through rate associated with the one single search result, the particular search result being one of the one or more search results that are each classified as at least potentially relevant to the search query.

13. The medium of claim 12, the operations comprising calculating the observed historical click through rate as a ratio representing a total number of times users have selected the one single search result to a total number of times users have selected a second search result different from the one single search result.

14. The medium of claim 12, the operations comprising calculating the observed historical click through rate as a ratio representing a total number of times users have selected the one single search result in response to a search query to a total number of times users have selected other search results in response to the search query, the other search results being different from the search result.