METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING FACT CHECKING RESULTS TO GENERATE SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS

• US 20130060757A1
• Filed: 11/06/2012
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Myslinski, Lucas J.
• Application Number:
  US13/670,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20130060757A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A search engine fact checking system is able to verify the correctness of information and/or characterize information related to a search engine by comparing the information with one or more sources. The search engine fact checking system includes performing a search, fact checks the search results and providing a result.

Claims

1. A method programmed in a memory of a device comprising:

a. performing a search including searching for an inputted search string in search sources and returning search results;

b. fact checking the search including comparing each of the search results with source information to determine the factual accuracy of each of the search results; and

c. providing a combined result of the search and the fact checking.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the search results are grouped into relevance groups according to relevance.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein fact checking affects the search results within a relevance group but does not cause a search result to be removed from the relevance group.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein fact checking includes processing each of the search results by parsing each result of the search results.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the combined result includes less accurate search results presented lower than more accurate search results.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the combined result includes a search result without factual inaccuracies on top of a list of the search results.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein fact checking includes changing a position of a search result in a list of the search results if the search result has a number of factual inaccuracies above a threshold.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the search and the fact checking are equally weighted.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the search has a higher weighting than the fact checking.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the search has a lower weighting than the fact checking.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein fact checking comprises determining bias of a search result.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein each source of the source information includes a reliability rating, wherein higher rated sources are used before lower rated sources, and sources below a threshold are not used.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying an advertisement based on the combined result.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying a first advertisement based on the combined result and a second advertisement opposing the first advertisement.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying an advertisement based on the fact checking result.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising automatically sending the combined result to a second device.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the source information is ranked by popularity, and fact checking utilizes a most popular source information first and less popular source information in a descending order.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein fact checking is performed using cloud computing.

19. A method programmed in a memory of a device comprising:

a. performing a search including retrieving search results, wherein the search results comprise fact checked web pages fact checked by parsing the web pages into fact checkable portions and comparing the fact checkable portions with source information to determine the factual accuracy of each of the web pages; and

b. providing the search results.

20. A device comprising:

a. a memory for storing an application for automatically performing the following steps;

i. performing a search including searching for an inputted search string in search sources and returning search results grouped into relevance groups according to relevance;

ii. fact checking the search including comparing each of the search results with source information to determine the factual accuracy of each of the search results, wherein fact checking affects the search results within a relevance group but does not cause a search result to be removed from the relevance group, further wherein the search has a higher weighting than the fact checking;

iii. providing a combined result of the search and the fact checking; and

iv. displaying an advertisement based on the combined result; and

b. a processor for processing the application.