BOOKMARKS AND RANKING

• US 20080010252A1
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Published: 01/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Zamir, Oren, Korn, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US11/536,923
• Publication Number:
  US 20080010252A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A system receives bookmarks associated with one or more documents or sites. The system searches a corpus of documents to obtain search results and ranks the search results using the received bookmarks.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving bookmarks associated with one or more documents or sites;

searching a corpus of documents to obtain search results; and

ranking the search results using the received bookmarks.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the corpus of documents include a corpus of bookmarks.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the corpus of bookmarks includes the received bookmarks.

4. The method of claim 1, farther comprising:

determining one or more categories associated with the received bookmark, wherein ranking the search results includes using the one or more categories to rank the search results.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein ranking the search results comprises:

promoting ones of the search results that correspond to the one or more categories within the ranked search results.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the bookmarks identify documents browsed by a user at a client.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing the ranked search results to a user associated with the bookmarks.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein ranking the search results using the received bookmarks comprises:

promoting ones of the search results that correspond to the received bookmarks within the ranked search results.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a bookmark from the bookmarks to promote a document that corresponds to the selected bookmark among other of the search results when ranking the search results.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein searching the corpus of documents to obtain search results comprises:

searching the corpus of documents based on a first search query; and

further comprising;

receiving a selection of a bookmark from the bookmarks and a second search query,

wherein ranking the search results comprises promoting a document that corresponds to the selected bookmark among the search results when the second query matches the first query.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a bookmark from the bookmarks,

wherein ranking the search results comprises;

promoting a document that corresponds to the selected bookmark, and documents associated with the same site as the selected bookmark, among the search results.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a bookmark from the bookmarks and an indication that the selected bookmark should not be used in ranking the search results,

wherein ranking the search results comprises;

ranking the search results without promoting a document, that corresponds to the selected bookmark, among the search results based on the indication.

13. A method, comprising:

receiving bookmarks associated with one or more documents or sites;

receiving user input defining how or if the bookmarks are to effect search results;

searching a corpus of documents to obtain search results; and

ranking the search results using the bookmarks based on the user input.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

providing the ranked search results to a user that initiated the search.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving user input defining how or if the bookmarks are to effect search results comprises:

receiving a selection of a bookmark from the bookmarks to promote among other of the search results when ranking the search results.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving user input defining how or if the bookmarks are to effect search results comprises:

receiving one or more search queries and a selection of a bookmark from the bookmarks to promote among other of the search results when ranking the search results obtained from a search using the one or more search queries.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving user input defining how or if the bookmarks are to effect search results comprises:

receiving a selection of a bookmark of the bookmarks to promote, along with documents associated with the same site as the selected bookmark, among other of the search results when ranking the search results.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving user input defining how or if the bookmarks are to effect search results comprises:

receiving a selection of a bookmark of the bookmarks and an indication that that bookmark is not to be promoted among other of the search results when ranking the search results.

19. A method, comprising:

obtaining a user'"'"'s bookmarks, wherein the bookmarks identify documents selected by the user;

executing a search based on a first search query received from the user to obtain search results;

ranking the search results; and

re-ranking the search results using the user'"'"'s bookmarks.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the bookmarks identify documents selected or browsed by the user.

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

providing the re-ranked search results to the user.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein re-ranking the search results using the user'"'"'s bookmarks comprises:

promoting ones of the search results that correspond to the user'"'"'s bookmarks within the ranked search results.

23. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a bookmark from the user'"'"'s bookmarks to promote among other of the search results when re-ranking the search results.

24. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a bookmark from the user'"'"'s bookmarks and a second search query, wherein re-ranking the search results comprises promoting the selected bookmark among the search results when the second search query matches the first search query.

25. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a bookmark from the user'"'"'s bookmarks,

wherein re-ranking the search results comprises;

promoting the selected bookmark, and documents associated with the same site as the selected bookmark, among the re-ranked search results.

26. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a bookmark of the user'"'"'s bookmarks,

wherein re-ranking the search results comprises;

re-ranking the search results without promoting the selected bookmark among the search results.

27. A system, comprising:

means for obtaining bookmarks associated with one or more documents or sites;

means for searching a corpus of documents to obtain search results; and

means for ranking the search results using the received bookmarks.

28. A computer-readable medium that stores computer-executable instructions, comprising:

instructions for obtaining bookmarks associated with one or more documents or sites;

instructions for receiving user input defining how or if the bookmarks are to effect search results;

instructions for searching a corpus of documents to obtain search results; and

instructions for ranking the search results using the bookmarks based on the user input.