Deduplication in Search Results

• US 20150161267A1
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Published: 06/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Imaizumi, Ryoichi, Sugawara, Yu, Kato, Yoshikiyo, Fukushima, Ken'ichi
• Granted Patent: US 10,007,731 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

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a plurality of search results that will be provided in response to a search query received from a user device. Two or more of the search results may reference at least two different resources that are responsive to the search query. It may be determined that the user device will be served a same set of content in response to user interaction with each of the two or more search results. In response to the determination, a replacement search result may be generated, including a reference to a resource serving the same set of content. In response to receiving the search query, a search page may be presented that includes the replacement search result and does not include at least one of the two or more identified search results.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

identifying a plurality of search results that will be provided in response to a search query received from a user device, two or more of the search results that link to at least two different resources that are responsive to the search query;

determining that, in response to user interaction with a first search result from the two or more search results, the user device will be request a first resource that is linked to by the first search result and be redirected to a given resource that is at a given network location that differs from a network location of the first resource;

determining that, in response to user interaction with a second search result from the two or more search results, the user device will request a second resource and be redirected to the given resource at the given network location, wherein the given network location differs from a network location of the second resource;

in response to the determination that the user device will be redirected to the given network location of the given resource in response to user interaction with each of the first search result and the second search result, generating a replacement search result including a link to the given network location of the given resource; and

in response to receiving the search query, providing a search page on which the replacement search result is presented and at least one of the two or more identified search results are not presented, wherein the given resource is different than each of the first resource and the second resource.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the given resource will be served from the given network location in response to user interaction with each of the two or more search results when the user interaction is performed at a user device having a particular characteristic; and

determining that the user device submitting the search query has the particular characteristic.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the particular characteristic is that the user device is a mobile device.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the two or more search results will be redirected to a same resource when selected by a user device having the particular characteristic; and

the replacement search result references the resource that the two or more search results will be redirected to.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the replacement search result is presented as a single search result referencing only the given network location.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the replacement search result is presented as a cluster of related search results.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein at least one of the cluster of related search results references a resource referenced by one of the two or more search results.

8. A system comprising:

a data store storing instructions;

one or more processors that interact with the data store, wherein execution of the instructions cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

identifying a plurality of search results that will be provided in response to a search query received from a user device, two or more of the search results that link to at least two different resources that are responsive to the search query;

determining that, in response to user interaction with a first search result from the two or more search results, the user device will be request a first resource that is linked to by the first search result and be redirected to a given resource that is at a given network location that differs from a network location of the first resource;

determining that, in response to user interaction with a second search result from the two or more search results, the user device will request a second resource and be redirected to the given resource at the given network location, wherein the given network location differs from a network location of the second resource;

in response to the determination that the user device will be redirected to the given network location of the given resource in response to user interaction with each of the first search result and the second search result, generating a replacement search result including a link to the given network location of the given resource; and

in response to receiving the search query, providing a search page on which the replacement search result is presented and at least one of the two or more identified search results are not presented, wherein the given resource is different than each of the first resource and the second resource.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising;

determining that the given resource will be served from the given network location in response to user interaction with each of the two or more search results when the user interaction is performed at a user device having a particular characteristic; and

determining that the user device submitting the search query has the particular characteristic.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the particular characteristic is that the user device is a mobile device.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the replacement search result is presented as a single search result referencing only the given network location.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the replacement search result is presented as a cluster of related search results.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein at least one of the cluster of related search results references a resource referenced by one of the two or more search results.

11. (canceled)

15. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

identifying a plurality of search results that will be provided in response to a search query received from a user device, two or more of the search results that link to at least two different resources that are responsive to the search query;

determining that, in response to user interaction with a first search result from the two or more search results, the user device will be request a first resource that is linked to by the first search result and be redirected to a given resource that is at a given network location that differs from a network location of the first resource;

determining that, in response to user interaction with a second search result from the two or more search results, the user device will request a second resource and be redirected to the given resource at the given network location, wherein the given network location differs from a network location of the second resource;

in response to the determination that the user device will be redirected to the given network location of the given resource in response to user interaction with each of the first search result and the second search result, generating a replacement search result including a link to the given network location of the given resource; and

in response to receiving the search query, providing a search page on which the replacement search result is presented and at least one of the two or more identified search results are not presented, wherein the given resource is different than each of the first resource and the second resource.

16. The medium of claim 15, wherein the instruction cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations further comprising:

determining that the given resource will be served from the given network location in response to user interaction with each of the two or more search results when the user interaction is performed at a user device having a particular characteristic; and

determining that the user device submitting the search query has the particular characteristic.

17. The medium of claim 16, wherein the particular characteristic is that the user device is a mobile device.

19. The medium of claim 15, wherein the replacement search result is presented as a single search result referencing only the given network location.

20. The medium of claim 15, wherein:

the replacement search result is presented as a cluster of related search results; and

at least one of the cluster of related search results references a resource referenced by one of the two or more search results.

18. (canceled)