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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Rahul Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for ranking search results generated by a search engine are described. A search query initiated by a searcher is processed to identify a set of member profiles satisfying the search query. A ranking score is assigned to each member profile of the set of member profiles. A subset of the set of member profiles is identified based on a determination of an overlap between a work history specified in each of the subset of member profiles and a work history specified in a profile of the searcher. The ranking score assigned to a member profile of the subset of the set of member profiles is adjusted based on the determination. A portion of each of the set of member profiles satisfying the search query is communicated for presentation as search results in a search results interface.