Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Quan Wang

Shen Huang

Yongzheng Zhang

Chi-Yi Kuan

Daniel Joseph Giambalvo

Huan Hoang

Nicole Ashley Hamilton

David B Dehghan

Kenneth A Showman

Nirmal Rajesh Soy

Carey Tanner

Jay Thaler

Dennis Craig Marl

Thomas Alan Sponheim

Renan Jeffereis

Kristopher J Owens

The disclosed embodiments provide a system for performing A/B testing for search engine optimization (SEO). During operation, the system divides a set of web pages into a control group, an inbound treatment group, an outbound treatment group, and a full treatment group. Next, the system generates a first set of links from the outbound treatment group to the inbound treatment group and a second set of links within the full treatment group. The system then applies an A/B test to pairs of groups selected from the control group, the inbound treatment group, the outbound treatment group, and the full treatment group. Finally, the system outputs a result of the A/B test for use in assessing an effect of the first and second sets of links on search engine results associated with the set of web pages.

A/B testing for search engine optimization

An application programming interface (API) for administering the distribution of software updates on an update service node is presented. The API provides a plurality of interface calls through which an administrator can establish rules by which software updates available to the update service node are distributed.

Application programming interface for administering the distribution of software updates in an update distribution system

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Quan Wang