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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2009
Raman Chandrasekar, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Brian Quirk, Seattle, WA (US);
Sarthak Deepak Shah, Kirkland, WA (US);
Matthew Richardson, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher John Champness Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abhishek Gupta, Atlanta, GA (US);
Hao MA, Shatin, HK;
Raman Chandrasekar, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Brian Quirk, Seattle, WA (US);
Sarthak Deepak Shah, Kirkland, WA (US);
Matthew Richardson, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher John Champness Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abhishek Gupta, Atlanta, GA (US);
Hao Ma, Shatin, HK;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Human computation games are provided wherein a player is shown a page, such as a web page. The player is then asked to provide one or more terms that are intended to cause a search engine to return the page in response to performing a query using the terms. The terms provided by the player during game play are then collected, stored, and utilized to improve the performance of the search engine.