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Recent interest based relevance scoring

  • US 9,390,143 B2
  • Filed: 01/22/2015
  • Issued: 07/12/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method performed by a data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

  • identifying, for a user that submitted a query, a short-term category of interest;

    identifying, based on the query, a search result that has an associated category selection value and a general selection value, wherein;

    the category selection value is based on a count of selections of the search result as a portion of combined selection counts for search results responsive to the query for one or more users classified as having the short-term category of interest; and

    the general selection value is based on a count of selections of the search result as a portion of combined selection counts for search results responsive to the query for a plurality of users for multiple categories of interest;

    determining, based on a difference between the category selection value and the general selection value satisfying a threshold value, to adjust a ranking score for the search result;

    adjusting the ranking score for the search result in response to determining to adjust the ranking score for the search result; and

    ranking the search result with other search results for the query based on the adjusted ranking score.

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