Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mackenzie Steele

Srivaths Badrinath Copparam

Ian A McAllister

Delane Robert Hewett

Christoph Ponath

Thomas F Bergstraesser

Kong-Kat Wong

Shailesh Prakash

Chong I Ka

Helen Jean Cuncannan

Michael P Gordon

Methods and systems for reviewing content items created by users for presentation in association with a website are provided. Automatic scrubbing (followed by manual review, if necessary) of user-created content items that have yet to be presented in association with a website is provided as is manual review of user-created content items that have already been presented in association with a website at the request of a user.

Reviewing user-created content before website presentation

A vertical search engine may rank items based on both the quality of data associated with each item and the popularity of each item. The vertical search engine may access data associated with items from a variety of different sources, including feed sources and crawl sources. Data quality inputs are determined for each item based on the quality of the data associated with each respective item. In addition, popularity inputs are determined for each item based on user interest in each respective item. A global rankings score is then calculated for each item based on the data quality inputs and popularity inputs for each respective item. The global ranking score may be used to order search results for search queries in such a way that items from feed data and items from crawl data may be displayed in a unified manner, rather than being segregated by data source.

Consumer-focused results ordering

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Mackenzie Steele