Patent ID: 8417530

Claim:
A system comprising: one or more computers; and a computer readable medium coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising: obtaining a transcription of a voice query; obtaining data that identifies an accent of the voice query; submitting (i) the transcription of the voice query and (ii) the data that identifies the accent of the voice query, to a search engine; in response to submitting (i) the transcription of the voice query and (ii) the data that identifies the accent of the voice query, to a search engine, receiving one or more search results; providing one or more of the search results to a client device for display; in response to providing the one or more search results, receiving a signal indicating that a user has or has not expressed interest in or satisfaction with a particular search result; and adjusting a score associated with both the particular search result and the identified accent based on the signal, wherein adjusting the score comprises incrementing the score when the signal indicates that the user has expressed interest in or satisfaction with the particular search result, or decrementing the score when the signal indicates that the user has not expressed interest in or satisfaction with the particular search result.