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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
May. 14, 2010
Mihai Badoiu, New York, NY (US);
Mihai Badoiu, New York, NY (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for calculating a location relevance score for search results is disclosed. In one aspect, a location relevance score is calculated for each search result based on three distances to a physical address associated with the search result. The first distance is measured from a polygon approximating the boundary of a specified region of interest. The second distance is measured from a combined area associated with the associated zip codes of the specified region of interest. The third distance is measured from a central location determined according to criteria independent of geometry of the specified region of interest. The search results are ranked according to their associated location relevance scores.