Domain collapsing of search results

• US 8,041,709 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2007
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Wad, Rohit V., Sareen, Gaurav, Wang, Junhua, Permandla, Pratibha, Kumar, Girish, Ramsey, William D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trujillo; James
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mamillapalli; Pavan
• Application Number:
  US11/753,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20080294602A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,607 Days
• Field of Search: 707/3, 707/5, 707/2, 707/102, 707/4, 707/10, 707/7, 707/737, 707/752, 707/722, 707/723, 715/234
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for presenting search results having collapsed domains are provided. A search result obtaining module obtains search results based upon a received query. Upon obtaining the search results, search results having the same domain are associated with one another. Thereafter, search result clusters of associated search results are formed. In some embodiments, the search result clusters may be formatted to include desired search result cluster attributes. The search result clusters are presented such that two or more associated search results form a single cluster of search results rather than being presented individually. In some embodiments, an option to view more search results with the same domain may be provided.

Claims

1. A computerized system for collapsing search results having the same domain, the system comprising:

a search result obtaining module configured to obtain one or more search results relevant to a user query;

a collapsing module configured to form a plurality of search result clusters to display, wherein each of the plurality of search result clusters comprise two or more search results having the same domain, wherein a document ranking associated with each search result is used to determine the two or more search results to include in each search result cluster and the order in which the two or more search results are displayed within each search result cluster; and

a presenting module configured to display within a search results page, via a graphical user interface, at least one of the one or more obtained search results and at least one of the one or more search result clusters formed by the collapsing module having a parent search result and one or more child search results each with the same domain as the parent search result.

2. The computerized system of claim 1, further comprising a feature determining component configured to determine whether a domain collapsing feature is activated.

3. The computerized system of claim 1, further comprising a request receiving component configured to receive a request to view one or more desired search results pertaining to one of the one or more search result clusters, wherein the one or more desired search results have the same domain as the two or more search results presented in the one of the one or more search result clusters.

4. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the search result obtaining module comprises a receiving component configured to obtain the one or more search results by receiving the one or more search results from one or more computing devices.

5. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the search result obtaining module comprises a retrieving component configured to obtain the one or more search results by retrieving the one or more search results from one or more computing devices.

6. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the search result obtaining module comprises:

a query receiving component configured to receive a one or more query terms; and

a searching component configured to search for and obtain the one or more search results.

7. The computerized system of claim 6, wherein the search result obtaining module further comprises a feature determining component configured to determine whether a domain collapsing feature is activated.

8. The computerized system of claim 6, wherein the searching component comprises one or more aggregators.

9. The computerized system of claim 8, wherein the one or more aggregators comprise one or more bottom level aggregators, one or more middle level aggregators, one or more top level aggregators, or a combination thereof.

10. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for collapsing search results having the same domain, the method comprising:

obtaining a plurality of search results relevant to one or more query terms;

associating at least two of the plurality of search results having a same first domain and associating at least two of the plurality of search results having a same second domain;

forming at least two search result clusters, wherein a first search result cluster comprises the at least two of the plurality of search results having the same first domain and a second search result cluster comprises the at least two of the plurality of search results having the same second domain;

modifying at least the first search result cluster to limit the at least two of the plurality of search results to a particular number of search results to present, wherein a document ranking in association with each of the at least two of the plurality of search results is utilized to identify the particular search results to include in the modified first search result cluster, the document ranking indicating relevance of the corresponding search result to one or more query terms; and

displaying, via a graphical user interface, the second search result cluster and the modified first search result cluster comprising the particular number of search results having the same first domain grouped together, wherein the order in which the particular number of search results are displayed within the first search result cluster is based on the document ranking.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising formatting the second search result cluster to include one or more search result cluster attributes.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more search result cluster attributes comprises one or more of search result rankings, relationship structures, search result limitations, structure components, title collapsing, URL collapsing, or a combination thereof.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising presenting an option to view one or more desired search results pertaining to the second search result cluster, wherein the one or more desired search results have the same second domain.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving a request to view the one or more desired search results;

obtaining the one or more desired search results; and

presenting the obtained one or more desired search results.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein obtaining the plurality of search results comprises receiving search results provided by one or more computing devices.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein obtaining the plurality of search results comprises determining search results with one or more aggregators, wherein the one or more aggregators comprises one or more bottom level aggregators, one or more middle level aggregators, one or more top level aggregators, or a combination thereof.

17. A graphical user interface embodied on one or more computer-storage media and executable on a computing device, the graphical user interface comprising a first display area on a user'"'"'s computer configured for displaying a plurality of search result clusters within a search results page, each of the plurality of search result clusters comprises two or more search results having the same domain, wherein a document ranking associated with each search result is used to determine the two or more search results to include in each of the plurality of search result clusters and the order in which the two or more search results are displayed within each of the plurality of the search result clusters.

18. The graphical user interface of claim 17, wherein the two or more search results having the same domain comprise a parent search result having a parent document title, a parent document snippet, and a parent document caption URL, and at least one child search result having a child document title and a child document snippet.

19. The graphical user interface of claim 17, wherein each of the two or more search results having the same domain comprise one or more structure components where one of the one or more structure components comprises a document URL, a document caption URL, a document title, a document snippet, a document domain, a cached page feature, or a combination thereof.

20. The graphical user interface of claim 17, wherein the first display area is further configured for displaying an option to view one or more desired search results pertaining to one of the one or more search result clusters, wherein the one or more desired search results have the same domain as the two or more search results presented in the one of the one or more search result clusters.