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Identifying local experts for local search

  • US 9,792,330 B1
  • Filed: 04/30/2013
  • Issued: 10/17/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of ranking local search results based on reviews by experts, the method comprising:

  • receiving a query from a user via a user device;

    identifying a geographic area and a category of business for the query;

    identifying, with one or more processors using reviews related to the geographic area and the category of business from a plurality of users, a plurality of experts within the plurality of users based at least on respective numbers of reviews each user submitted, including iteratively modifying the category of business to identify at least a threshold number of experts;

    ranking, with the one or more processors, local search results responsive to the query based on reviews of the local search results by the plurality of experts; and

    causing the ranked local search results to be displayed via the user device.

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