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Ordering of search results based on language and/or country of the search results

  • US 9,183,311 B2
  • Filed: 09/14/2012
  • Issued: 11/10/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • identifying, by one or more devices and based on a search query, search results,each search result, of the search results, being associated with a particular score;

    determining, by at least one of the one or more devices, a particular country for the search results by;

    analyzing, at a first time, interface characteristics to identify the particular country,determining, based on analyzing the interface characteristics, that the particular country is not identified, andanalyzing, at a second time based on determining that analyzing the interface characteristics does not identify the particular country, Internet Protocol (IP) characteristics to identify the particular country,the second time occurring after the first time;

    determining, by at least one of the one or more devices and based on determining the particular country for the search results, if respective particular scores for a set of the search results are numerically adjustable;

    adjusting, by at least one of the one or more devices and based on determining if the respective particular scores for the set of the search results are numerically adjustable, an ordering of at least one of the search results among other ones of the search results to create a list of search results when the at least one of the search results is associated with the particular country,a search result, of the set of search results, being ordered based on a shifting factor when the particular score, associated with the search result, is numerically adjustable and being ordered based on a weighting factor when the particular score is not numerically adjustable; and

    providing for presentation, by at least one of the one or more devices and based on the adjusted ordering, the list of search results.

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