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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
May. 23, 2007
Denis Churin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jingwei LU, Redmond, WA (US);
Nimish Khanolkar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sundaram Narayanan, Issaquah, WA (US);
Tapas Nayak, Sammamish, WA (US);
Feng Tian, Shandong, CN;
Denis Churin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jingwei Lu, Redmond, WA (US);
Nimish Khanolkar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sundaram Narayanan, Issaquah, WA (US);
Tapas Nayak, Sammamish, WA (US);
Feng Tian, Shandong, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows a search engine to utilize a user-defined relevance function. In one approach to the technology, a method of applying a user-defined relevance function is described. In this approach, a complex search query is decomposed into a simple operator. The simple operator is associated with the user-defined relevance function. A document which matches the search query is retrieved, and a rank is calculated for the document, using the user-defined relevance function.