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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
May. 27, 2010
Walter Sun, Bellevue, WA (US);
Thomas Arthur Ledbetter, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vinay Sudhir Deshpande, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yinzhe Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lin Guo, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhishek Singh, Redmond, WA (US);
Junaid Ahmed, Redmond, WA (US);
Jay Kumar Goyal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jingfeng LI, Issaquah, WA (US);
Brahm Kiran Singh, Bellevue, WA (US);
Walter Sun, Bellevue, WA (US);
Thomas Arthur Ledbetter, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vinay Sudhir Deshpande, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yinzhe Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lin Guo, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhishek Singh, Redmond, WA (US);
Junaid Ahmed, Redmond, WA (US);
Jay Kumar Goyal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jingfeng Li, Issaquah, WA (US);
Brahm Kiran Singh, Bellevue, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-storage media for improving the freshness, or the apparent freshness, of search results are described. In an embodiment, the first portion of search results presented on a search results page are based on responsiveness to the search query and a second portion of results describe only recently published documents that are responsive to the search query. In an embodiment, a more recent version of the document, which is not directly used to determine responsiveness, is used to build the caption for a search result. Another way to make search results appear fresh is to include a publication time within the search result caption. In one embodiment, the publication time is generated by calculating a point in time between when a document is first added to a search index and the previous time the search engine visited the site where the document was found.