Blending Mobile Search Results

• US 20110213772A1
• Filed: 05/11/2011
• Published: 09/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Hu, Ning, Ha, Vida U.
• Granted Patent: US 8,341,147 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/726
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for blending mobile search results. A method includes receiving a search query and multiple search results. The search results each satisfy the search query and have a respective search result quality score. The search results include generic and mobile search results. The generic and mobile search results each identify a generic and mobile resource, respectively. The search result quality scores include mobile and generic search result quality scores for the mobile and generic search results, respectively. The mobile search result quality scores and the generic search result quality scores were generated according to different scoring formulas. Based on one or more terms in the search query, the search query is classified as a mobile query. As a consequence, one or more search result quality scores are modified to improve the sorting of search results that include both mobile and generic search results.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:

receiving a search query, a plurality of generic search results, and a plurality of mobile search results, wherein each of the generic search results is responsive to the search query, identifies a respective generic resource, and has a respective search result quality score, and wherein each of the mobile search results is responsive to the search query, identifies a respective mobile resource, and has a respective search result quality score, and wherein the search query came from a mobile device;

selecting a mobile search result of the plurality of mobile search results that identifies a mobile resource having a uniform resource locator in a same domain as a uniform resource locator for a generic resource identified by a generic search result of the plurality of generic search results;

increasing the respective search result quality score of the selected mobile search result;

ranking the generic search results and the mobile search results, including the selected mobile search result, based on the respective search result quality scores; and

providing the ranked search results to the client device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining that the search query came from the mobile device by classifying the search query as a mobile search query using a classifier.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the classifier is a naive Bayes classifier.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile resource identified by the selected mobile search result is written in Wireless Markup Language.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising removing one or more duplicates from the ranked search results.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein removing the one or more duplicates comprises:

identifying a specific mobile search result in the plurality of mobile search results that identifies a mobile resource having a first uniform resource locator;

identifying a specific generic search result in the plurality of generic search results that identifies a generic resource having a second uniform resource locator that is the same as the first uniform resource locator; and

removing the specific generic search result from the ranked search results.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein if the specific generic search result had a higher position in the ranked search results than the specific mobile search result, moving the specific mobile search result to the position in the ranked search results that the specific generic search result occupied.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein removing the one or more duplicates comprises:

identifying a specific mobile search result in the plurality of mobile search results that identifies a mobile resource having a first uniform resource locator;

identifying a specific generic search result in the plurality of generic search results that identifies a generic resource having a second uniform resource locator, the second uniform resource locator being different from the first uniform resource locator, the respective resources located at the first and second uniform resource locators being different versions of a same web page; and

removing the specific generic search result from the order.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein if the specific generic search result had a higher position in the ranked search results than the specific mobile search result, moving the specific mobile search result to the position in the ranked search results that the specific generic search result occupied.

10. A system comprising:

a machine-readable storage device having instructions stored thereon; and

data processing apparatus operable to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising;

receiving a search query, a plurality of generic search results, and a plurality of mobile search results, wherein each of the generic search results is responsive to the search query, identifies a respective generic resource, and has a respective search result quality score, and wherein each of the mobile search results is responsive to the search query, identifies a respective mobile resource, and has a respective search result quality score, and wherein the search query came from a mobile device;

selecting a mobile search result of the plurality of mobile search results that identifies a mobile resource having a uniform resource locator in a same domain as a uniform resource locator for a generic resource identified by a generic search result of the plurality of generic search results;

increasing the respective search result quality score of the selected mobile search result;

ranking the generic search results and the mobile search results, including the selected mobile search result, based on the respective search result quality scores; and

providing the ranked search results to the client device.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising determining that the search query came from the mobile device by classifying the search query as a mobile search query using a classifier.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the classifier is a naive Bayes classifier.

13. The system of claim 10 wherein the mobile resource identified by the selected mobile search result is written in Wireless Markup Language.

14. The system of claim 10, further comprising removing one or more duplicates from the ranked search results.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein removing the one or more duplicates comprises:

identifying a specific mobile search result in the plurality of mobile search results that identifies a mobile resource having a first uniform resource locator;

identifying a specific generic search result in the plurality of generic search results that identifies a generic resource having a second uniform resource locator that is the same as the first uniform resource locator; and

removing the specific generic search result from the ranked search results.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein if the specific generic search result had a higher position in the ranked search results than the specific mobile search result, moving the specific mobile search result to the position in the ranked search results that the specific generic search result occupied.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein removing the one or more duplicates comprises:

identifying a specific mobile search result in the plurality of mobile search results that identifies a mobile resource having a first uniform resource locator;

identifying a specific generic search result in the plurality of generic search results that identifies a generic resource having a second uniform resource locator, the second uniform resource locator being different from the first uniform resource locator, the respective resources located at the first and second uniform resource locators being different versions of a same web page; and

removing the specific generic search result from the order.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein if the specific generic search result had a higher position in the ranked search results than the specific mobile search result, moving the specific mobile search result to the position in the ranked search results that the specific generic search result occupied.

19. A storage device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by data processing apparatus, cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving a search query, a plurality of generic search results, and a plurality of mobile search results, wherein each of the generic search results is responsive to the search query, identifies a respective generic resource, and has a respective search result quality score, and wherein each of the mobile search results is responsive to the search query, identifies a respective mobile resource, and has a respective search result quality score, and wherein the search query came from a mobile device;

selecting a mobile search result of the plurality of mobile search results that identifies a mobile resource having a uniform resource locator in a same domain as a uniform resource locator for a generic resource identified by a generic search result of the plurality of generic search results;

increasing the respective search result quality score of the selected mobile search result;

ranking the generic search results and the mobile search results, including the selected mobile search result, based on the respective search result quality scores; and

providing the ranked search results to the client device.

20. The storage device of claim 19, further comprising determining that the search query came from the mobile device by classifying the search query as a mobile search query using a classifier.

21. The storage device of claim 20 wherein the classifier is a naive Bayes classifier.

22. The storage device of claim 19 wherein the mobile resource identified by the selected mobile search result is written in Wireless Markup Language.

23. The storage device of claim 19, further comprising removing one or more duplicates from the ranked search results.

24. The storage device of claim 23 wherein removing the one or more duplicates comprises:

identifying a specific mobile search result in the plurality of mobile search results that identifies a mobile resource having a first uniform resource locator;

identifying a specific generic search result in the plurality of generic search results that identifies a generic resource having a second uniform resource locator that is the same as the first uniform resource locator; and

removing the specific generic search result from the ranked search results.

25. The storage device of claim 24 wherein if the specific generic search result had a higher position in the ranked search results than the specific mobile search result, moving the specific mobile search result to the position in the ranked search results that the specific generic search result occupied.

26. The storage device of claim 23, wherein removing the one or more duplicates comprises:

identifying a specific mobile search result in the plurality of mobile search results that identifies a mobile resource having a first uniform resource locator;

identifying a specific generic search result in the plurality of generic search results that identifies a generic resource having a second uniform resource locator, the second uniform resource locator being different from the first uniform resource locator, the respective resources located at the first and second uniform resource locators being different versions of a same web page; and

removing the specific generic search result from the order.

27. The storage device of claim 26 wherein if the specific generic search result had a higher position in the ranked search results than the specific mobile search result, moving the specific mobile search result to the position in the ranked search results that the specific generic search result occupied.