Patent ID: 8583640

Claim:
A search method comprising: under control of a computer configured with executable instructions: according to query data submitted by a client, obtaining a first search result set of first search results relevant to the query data; according to a first relevance score and a preset diversity field of each first search result in the first search result set, calculating a second relevance score of each first search result, the preset diversity field representing an attribute category of a respective first search result; according to the first relevance score and the second relevance score of each first search result, generating a relevance parameter score for each first search result, wherein the generating comprises summing the first relevance score and the second relevance score to provide the relevance parameter score for each first search result; and according to a preset number of second search results and the relevance parameter score of each first search result, extracting the preset number of second search results from the first search result set for display to the client, wherein the extracting comprises: classifying the first search result set to obtain a plurality of subsets; according to the relevance parameter score, ranking each subset of the plurality of subsets after classification of the first search results; and according to a ranking order, extracting the preset number of second search results respectively from the ranked subsets, the preset number of second search results being a product of a number of diversity values and a number of recurring extractions.