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Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 08, 2014
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventor:

Eric B. Fox, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0207 (2013.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Increasing diversity of search results is described. In one embodiment, a computing device obtains initial search results based on a search query. From among non-indexed attributes of the initial search results, an attribute is selected by which to diversify the initial search results. A latent group of search results is determined from among the initial search results based on the attribute, and a relevance score of at least one search result in the latent group of search results is changed. Further, results are provided in response to the search query. In one embodiment, the results include at least a portion of the initial search results and at least a portion of the latent group of search results based on the changed relevance score of the search results in the latent group.


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