Patent ID: 9009146
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: for a document identified as a search result of a user-submitted query, scoring one or more other queries based upon a similarity to the user-submitted query, each of the one or more other queries being different from the user-submitted query, where scoring the one or more other queries comprises: selecting one or more of the other queries based on each of the respective scores of the other queries; deriving a quality of result statistic for the document from respective data associated with the selected queries, the respective data being indicative of prior user interaction with the document when the document was provided as a search result for the selected queries; and providing the quality of result statistic as the quality of result statistic input to a document ranking process for the user-submitted query, the document ranking process configured to rank a plurality of documents responsive to the user-submitted query.