Visually Emphasizing Query Results Based on Relevance Feedback
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- accessing a web page which includes one or more results returned by an information-retrieval system, wherein each result includes a displayed URL;
determining whether the displayed URL matches one or more stored URLs, wherein the one or more stored URLs were included in one or more results returned earlier by the information-retrieval system; and
visually emphasizing the displayed URL when presenting the web page to a user at a client computing device, if the displayed URL does not match any stored URL.
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Abstract
An example embodiment of the present invention provides processes for visually emphasizing the displayed URLs in query results based on implicit relevance feedback. In one process, the process identifies a web page which includes results returned by a search engine. Each result might include a displayed URL and an actual URL. The process determines whether the displayed URL matches any stored URLs which were included in previous results returned by the search engine and clicked through by the user. The process detects a click-through by matching the actual URL in an HTTP request emanating from a browser to an actual URL for a stored URL. The process visually emphasizes the displayed URL when presenting the web page to the user, if the displayed URL does not match any stored URL which has been clicked through and other factors indicate a probability the user will click through the displayed URL.
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22 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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accessing a web page which includes one or more results returned by an information-retrieval system, wherein each result includes a displayed URL; determining whether the displayed URL matches one or more stored URLs, wherein the one or more stored URLs were included in one or more results returned earlier by the information-retrieval system; and visually emphasizing the displayed URL when presenting the web page to a user at a client computing device, if the displayed URL does not match any stored URL. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method, comprising:
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identifying a web page which includes one or more results returned by an information-retrieval system, wherein each result includes a displayed URL; determining whether the displayed URL matches one or more stored URLs which have been clicked through by a user, wherein the one or more stored URLs were included in one or more results returned earlier by the information-retrieval system and wherein an indication of a click-through by the user was detected and stored; and visually emphasizing the displayed URL when presenting the web page to a user at a client computing device, if the displayed URL does not match any stored URL which has been clicked through by the user and other factors indicate a probability that the user will click-through the displayed URL. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus, comprising
a network interface; -
main memory; one or more processors; and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable media for execution and when executed operable to; access a web page which includes one or more results returned by an information-retrieval system, wherein each result includes a displayed URL; determine whether the displayed URL matches one or more stored URLs, wherein the one or more stored URLs were included in one or more results returned earlier by the information-retrieval system; and visually emphasize the displayed URL when presenting the web page to a user at a client computing device, if the displayed URL does not match any stored URL. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus, comprising
a network interface; -
main memory; one or more processors; and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable media for execution and when executed operable to; access a web page which includes one or more results returned by an information-retrieval system, wherein each result includes a displayed URL; determine whether the displayed URL matches one or more stored URLs which have been clicked through by a user, wherein the one or more stored URLs were included in one or more results returned earlier by the information-retrieval system and wherein an indication of a click-through by the user was detected and stored; and visually emphasize the displayed URL when presenting the web page to a user at a client computing device, if the displayed URL does not match any stored URL which has been clicked through by the user and other factors indicate a probability that the user will click-through the displayed URL. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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