How a Search Engine Might Determine the Relevance of Search Results from Related Queries By Bill Slawski, on July 22nd, 2009
It’s interesting to see how a search engine might try to ensure the relevancy of its own search results.
A recently granted Yahoo patent investigates an approach that might help it identify how relevant the results it displays to searchers might actually be, and how likely those results are to show a variety of results when a searcher uses a query term that might cover a range of topics.
Before presenting their automated approach for checking relevance and variety, the patent tells us about some of the limitations it sees in using manual review or click data for determining how relevant results might be.
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