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Methods, systems, and media for providing a media search engine

  • US 9,063,984 B1
  • Filed: 03/15/2013
  • Issued: 06/23/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for searching for content, the system comprising:

  • a hardware processor that is configured to;

    receive a media search query for one or more media assets;

    identify a plurality of web search results from a corpus of web resources that are responsive to the media search query, wherein each of the web search results has an associated relevancy score;

    determine keyword information and contextual information from a subset of the web search results, wherein the subset of the web search results is selected from the plurality of web search results based on the associated relevancy score and wherein a plurality of media entities are determined from at least a portion of the keyword information and the contextual information;

    assign a topic score for the each of the plurality of media entities based on occurrence in the web search results;

    select at least one media entity from the plurality of media entities based on the topic score;

    identify a plurality of media assets from a corpus of media assets based at least in part on the selected media entity; and

    cause a subset of the plurality of media assets to be presented to a user in response to the media search query.

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