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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2010
Filip Radlinski, Vancouver, CA;
Nick Craswell, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter Bailey, Kirkland, WA (US);
Daniel Schwartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Aidan Crook, Bellevue, WA (US);
Likhita Krishnamurthy, Seattle, WA (US);
Filip Radlinski, Vancouver, CA;
Nick Craswell, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter Bailey, Kirkland, WA (US);
Daniel Schwartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Aidan Crook, Bellevue, WA (US);
Likhita Krishnamurthy, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and computer-readable media are provided for improving the efficiency of the interleaving process. Once it is determined that a search query is to be used in an interleaving experiment, a primary ranking system and a secondary ranking system are analyzed to determine whether their respective search results for that search query would be identical. If the search results would be identical, the search query is routed only to the primary ranking system and not the secondary ranking system. If, however, it is determined that the search results would not be identical, both the primary ranking system and the secondary ranking system receive the search query for processing.