Method and computer readable medium for search scoring
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1. A method for arranging search results comprising:
- capturing sales information associated with a document, wherein the document was returned in a search result set formed in response to a search term;
determining relative responsiveness, compared with other members of the search result set, of the document to the search term based on the sales information and on a position of the document in an ordering of the search result set;
generating a score for association with the document reflecting the relative responsiveness of the document to the search term; and
using the score to affect a response to a subsequent search.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for generating search results with higher relevancy. The present invention exploits the fact that users'"'"' choices on each given search term tend to converge to several products from several merchants, and all of the results are very relevant to the search term. In one embodiment, these results are used to decide the order of merchants for each search term. By learning the users'"'"' choices, especially from purchasing and/or clicking information, highly relevant and most popular products can be assigned a higher score or rank over text relevant only products.
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1. A method for arranging search results comprising:
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capturing sales information associated with a document, wherein the document was returned in a search result set formed in response to a search term; determining relative responsiveness, compared with other members of the search result set, of the document to the search term based on the sales information and on a position of the document in an ordering of the search result set; generating a score for association with the document reflecting the relative responsiveness of the document to the search term; and using the score to affect a response to a subsequent search. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A computer readable medium encoded with computer readable program code, the program code comprising:
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instructions operable to obtain sales information associated with a document, wherein the document was returned in a search result set formed in response to a search term; instructions operable to determine relative responsiveness, compared with other members of the search result set, of the document to the search term based on the sales information and on a position of the document in an ordering of the search result set; and instructions operable to generate a score for association with the document reflecting the relative responsiveness of the document to the search term. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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