Patent ID: 8032483

Claim:
A method performed by one or more processors associated with one or more server devices, the method comprising: eliciting, by one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, user participation in a game by posing queries from a query log to a user, where the query log comprises search queries previously submitted by one or more users; gathering, by one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, first information resulting from the user participation in the game; gathering, by one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, second information, which is different than the first information, resulting from the user participation in the game; assigning, by one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, a score to the user based on the gathered first information; assigning, by one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, a weight to the gathered second information based on the assigned score; and using, by one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, the weighted, gathered, second information to answer queries subsequently posed to the one or more users.