Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Thomas Arthur Ledbetter

Lin Guo

Junaid Ahmed

Abhishek Kumar Singh

Walter Sun

Yinzhe Yu

Jay Goyal

Jingfeng Li

Vinay Deshpande

Brahm Kiran Singh

Methods, systems, and computer-storage media for improving the freshness, or the apparent freshness, of search results are described. In an embodiment, the first portion of search results presented on a search results page are based on responsiveness to the search query and a second portion of results describe only recently published documents that are responsive to the search query. In an embodiment, a more recent version of the document, which is not directly used to determine responsiveness, is used to build the caption for a search result. Another way to make search results appear fresh is to include a publication time within the search result caption. In one embodiment, the publication time is generated by calculating a point in time between when a document is first added to a search index and the previous time the search engine visited the site where the document was found.

Enhancing freshness of search results

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Thomas Arthur Ledbetter