Patent ID: 8583636

Claim:
A method comprising: generating, by one or more processors, one or more values based on a measure of quality of first search results provided during a first time period and based on a first search query, the one or more values corresponding to a predicted measure of quality of one or more second search results, the one or more second search results being provided during a second time period and being based on a second search query, the second time period being subsequent to the first time period, and the one or more values being based on one or more user actions associated with the first search results provided during the first time period; providing, by one or more processors, a list of the one or more second search results during the second time period; determining, by one or more processors, an actual measure of quality of the one or more second search results in the list of the one or more second search results provided during the second time period; comparing, by one or more processors, the predicted measure of quality to the actual measure of quality; and taking, by one or more processors, one or more remedial measures when the actual measure of quality is outside of a range of the predicted measure of quality.