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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2010
Hector Gonzalez, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Petros Venetis, Athens, GR;
Christian S. Jensen, Gistrup, DE;
Alon Y. Halevy, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hector Gonzalez, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Petros Venetis, Athens, GR;
Christian S. Jensen, Gistrup, DE;
Alon Y. Halevy, Los Altos, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and a method for ranking search results of local search queries. A local search query and a current location of a user are received. Next, two or more places that satisfy the local search query are identified, and for each respective place a corresponding distance from the current location of the user to the respective place is also identified. The two or more places are then ranked in accordance with scores that are based, at least in part, on popularity of the two or more places and the corresponding distances from the current location of the user, to produce a set of ranked places. The ranked set of places is then provided to the user.