Cursor Activity Evaluation For Search Result Enhancement
First Claim
1. In a computing environment, a method performed at least in part on at least one processor, comprising, using cursor data to improve search engine performance, including, processing the cursor data associated with web pages being presented to a user, extracting cursor events from the cursor data, identifying user behavior indicia from the cursor events based upon a user intent prediction model, and when the user submits a search query, producing a search result page using the user behavior indicia.
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Abstract
The subject disclosure is directed towards using cursor activity with respect to search result pages to enhance search engine operation. Data associated with the cursor activity may be translated into cursor events representing user interactions with a search result page. Based on the cursor events, user behavior indicia may be identified via a user intent prediction model corresponding to various search result page related user actions. The user behavior indicia and/or the user intent prediction model may be used to produce search result pages for current search queries from the user.
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20 Claims
- 1. In a computing environment, a method performed at least in part on at least one processor, comprising, using cursor data to improve search engine performance, including, processing the cursor data associated with web pages being presented to a user, extracting cursor events from the cursor data, identifying user behavior indicia from the cursor events based upon a user intent prediction model, and when the user submits a search query, producing a search result page using the user behavior indicia.
- 11. In a computing environment, a system, comprising, an extraction mechanism configured to generate a user intent prediction model for providing search results, wherein the extraction mechanism is further configured to identify a set of cursor events representing user interactions with search result pages, to generate feature data based on the set of cursor events, to produce a correlation result between user actions and the feature data, to update the user intent prediction model with the correlation result, and to incorporate the user intent prediction model into a search engine information retrieval model.
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17. One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions stored thereon, which in response to execution by a computer, cause the computer to perform steps comprising:
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monitoring a user computer to capture cursor activity associated with web pages; examining a user intent prediction model to interpret a user behavior profile comprising feature data corresponding to the cursor activity; determining a user action prediction for a current search query based on the user behavior profile; and producing a search result page for ranking electronic documents according to a likelihood of at least one pointer click by the user. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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