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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2005
Nancy Ellen Jacobs, Redmond, WA (US);
Simone Maillard, Seattle, WA (US);
Zijian Zheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nancy Ellen Jacobs, Redmond, WA (US);
Simone Maillard, Seattle, WA (US);
Zijian Zheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A search mechanism is evaluated or a relevance model checked using session level and result level diagnostics based on user behavior during a search session with respect to queries entered and user responses to result lists. Tracking occurs of when content desired by a user exists, but is not returned in a search result list when a query is made by the user with intent to find the desired content, when content desired by the user does not exist, when content desired by a user exists, but is not recognized by the user in a result list or is too low in a result list. A user's intent and search context is also taken into consideration when performing search mechanism diagnostics.