ORDERING OF SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON LANGUAGE AND/OR COUNTRY OF THE SEARCH RESULTS

• US 20090055392A1
• Filed: 10/21/2008
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Singhal, Amitabh, McGrath, Mizuki, Gomes, Ben, Tong, Simon, Lamping, John, Gupta, Vineet
• Granted Patent: US 8,306,972 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A system and method for providing preferred language and/or country ordering of search results is described. A search query describing potentially retrievable information provided in a plurality of search result languages and/or countries is received. A search is executed by evaluating the search query against information characteristics maintained in a searchable data repository. At least one preferred language and/or country applicable to search results generated is dynamically determined responsive to the executed search. At least some of the search results are ordered in consideration of the at least one preferred language and/or country.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a search query;

performing a search based on the search query to identify search results in a plurality of search result languages;

identifying a particular language for the search results based on characteristics of the search query, characteristics of a user interface via which the search query is received, and characteristics of the search results;

ordering the search results to create an ordered list of search results;

determining whether the search results in the ordered list of search results are in the particular language;

adjusting the ordering of one of the search results among other ones of the search results to create an adjusted list of search results when the one of the search results is in the particular language; and

presenting the adjusted list of search results.

2. A method, comprising:

receiving a search query;

performing a search based on the search query to identify search results from a plurality of search result countries;

identifying a particular country for the search results based on interface characteristics and Internet protocol (IP) characteristics,

where the interface characteristics include information from the search query and information from a user interface via which the search query is received, and

where the IP characteristics include information associated with a location from which the search query was sent;

ordering the search results to create an ordered list of search results;

determining whether the search results in the ordered list of search results are from the particular country;

adjusting the order of one of the search results among other ones of the search results to create an adjusted list of search results when the one of the search results is from the particular country; and

presenting the adjusted list of search results.