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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2010
Yang Song, Kirkland, WA (US);
Li-wei He, Redmond, WA (US);
Scott Kirk Imig, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert L. Rounthwaite, Fall City, WA (US);
Nam Hoang Nguyen, Lowell, MA (US);
Yang Song, Kirkland, WA (US);
Li-wei He, Redmond, WA (US);
Scott Kirk Imig, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert L. Rounthwaite, Fall City, WA (US);
Nam Hoang Nguyen, Lowell, MA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A searchable web site discovery and recommendation system and method for discovering and recommending searchable web sites to a user of a search engine. In general, given a search query by a user embodiments of the system and method discover and then recommend a list of searchable web sites. Embodiments of the system and method discover and recommend searchable web sites using client-side query behavior logs. A set of descriptive features is automatically extracted from the logs. In addition, embodiments of the system and method expand the initial search query by submitting the query to a general search engine and leveraging snippets from the search engine results. Embodiments of the system and method model a conditional probability of a searchable web site based on four components and the extracted descriptive features. A ranked list of recommended searchable web sites is obtained from the conditional probability and displayed to a user.