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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2009
Ziming Zhuang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Longbin Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ziming Zhuang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Longbin Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, ranking search results generated in response to search queries comprises: receiving, a search query from a user; identifying a plurality of network contents in response to the search query; determining one or more ranking criteria for the search query; presenting the ranking criteria to the user; receiving from the user one or more weights assigned to one or more of the ranking criteria; ranking the identified network contents based on the ranking criteria and the weights; and presenting the network contents to the user in an order according to their ranking.