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HYBRID AND ITERATIVE KEYWORD AND CATEGORY SEARCH TECHNIQUE

  • US 20120303651A1
  • Filed: 05/26/2011
  • Published: 11/29/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing recommendations to improve a query, comprising:

  • receiving a query with query keywords and selected categories; and

    in response to determining that the selected categories are ranked high with reference to query relevance indicator values for each of the selected categories,calculating a query relevance indicator of the query with each subcategory using keyword relevance indicators;

    ranking each subcategory based on the query relevance indicators; and

    providing the ranked subcategories for use in selecting new categories to be submitted with the query.

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