Selecting photographs for a destination or point of interest
First Claim
1. A method to provide photographs in response to search queries, comprising:
- retrieving, using one or more computing devices, geographic data comprising a logical hierarchy of terms indicating relationships between one or more geographic destinations or points of interest including at least a point of interest indicated by data in a search query;
identifying, using the one or more computing devices, a plurality of photographs geographically related to the point of interest;
determining for each of the plurality of photographs, using the one or more computing devices, a relevancy score based at least in part on references to the point of interest in documents associated with the photograph, wherein determining references to the point of interest that are associated with the photograph comprises;
identifying electronic documents associated with the photograph based on one or more criteria; and
determining which of the documents associated with the photograph reference the point of interest, wherein a document is determined to reference the point of interest when the document comprises terms that are relevant to the point of interest identified from the geographic data comprising the logical hierarchy of terms;
selecting, using the one or more computing devices, a particular photograph from the plurality of photographs based at least in part on a respective relevancy score for each photograph; and
providing, using the one or more computing devices and to a user computing device, the particular photograph in response to the search query for presentation of the particular photograph via the user computing device.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computerized travel services. One of the methods includes identifying photographs using an index of photographs, the photographs being identified from the index as photographs geographically related to a point of interest or destination and having a creation timestamp corresponding to a time of the year; determining for each of the photographs, a relevancy score based at least in part on: selection success data of the photograph for image queries referring to the point of interest or destination, and references to the point of interest or destination in documents associated with the photograph; and selecting a selected photograph from the photographs based at least in part on a respective visual quality score and the respective relevancy scores, the visual quality score representing a degree of visual quality of the respective photographs.
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20 Claims
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1. A method to provide photographs in response to search queries, comprising:
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retrieving, using one or more computing devices, geographic data comprising a logical hierarchy of terms indicating relationships between one or more geographic destinations or points of interest including at least a point of interest indicated by data in a search query; identifying, using the one or more computing devices, a plurality of photographs geographically related to the point of interest; determining for each of the plurality of photographs, using the one or more computing devices, a relevancy score based at least in part on references to the point of interest in documents associated with the photograph, wherein determining references to the point of interest that are associated with the photograph comprises; identifying electronic documents associated with the photograph based on one or more criteria; and determining which of the documents associated with the photograph reference the point of interest, wherein a document is determined to reference the point of interest when the document comprises terms that are relevant to the point of interest identified from the geographic data comprising the logical hierarchy of terms; selecting, using the one or more computing devices, a particular photograph from the plurality of photographs based at least in part on a respective relevancy score for each photograph; and providing, using the one or more computing devices and to a user computing device, the particular photograph in response to the search query for presentation of the particular photograph via the user computing device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system to provide photographs in response to search queries, comprising:
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one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising; retrieve geographic data comprising a logical hierarchy of terms indicating relationships between one or more geographic destinations or points of interest including at least a point of interest indicated by data in a search query; identify a plurality of photographs geographically related to the point of interest; determine, for each of the plurality of photographs, a relevancy score based at least in part on references to the point of interest in documents associated with the photograph, wherein determining references to the point of interest that are associated with the photograph comprises; identifying electronic documents associated with the photograph based on one or more criteria; and determining which of the documents associated with the photograph reference the point of interest, wherein a document is determined to reference the point of interest when the document comprises terms that are relevant to the point of interest identified from the geographic data comprising the logical hierarchy of terms; selecting a particular photograph from the plurality of photographs based at least in part on a respective relevancy score for each photograph; and providing, to a user computing device, the particular photograph in response to the search query for presentation of the particular photograph via the user computing device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer program product, comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to provide photographs in response to search queries, the computer-executable instructions comprising; computer executable instructions to retrieve geographic data comprising a logical hierarchy of terms indicating relationships between one or more geographic destinations or points of interest including at least a point of interest indicated by data in a search query; computer executable instructions to identify a plurality of photographs geographically related to the point of interest; computer executable instructions to determine, for each of the plurality of photographs, a relevancy score based at least in part on references to the point of interest in documents associated with the photograph, wherein determining references to the point of interest that are associated with the photograph comprises; identifying electronic documents associated with the photograph based on one or more criteria; and determining which of the documents associated with the photograph reference the point of interest, wherein a document is determined to reference the point of interest when the document comprises terms that are relevant to the point of interest identified from the geographic data comprising the logical hierarchy of terms; computer executable instructions to select a particular photograph from the plurality of photographs based at least in part on the respective relevancy score for each photograph; and computer-executable instructions to provide to a user computing device, the particular photograph in response to the search query for presentation of the particular photograph via the user computing device. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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