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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2009
Scott K. Imig, Redmond, WA (US);
Susan Dumais, Kirkland, WA (US);
Robert L. Rounthwaite, Fall City, WA (US);
Scott K. Imig, Redmond, WA (US);
Susan Dumais, Kirkland, WA (US);
Robert L. Rounthwaite, Fall City, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The automatic search engine recommendation technique described herein automatically recommends topic-specific search engines for user queries. In one embodiment, it automatically matches each query submitted to a non-topic specific or general search engine with one or more vertical search engines using a recommendation model and a set of features. For a given query, one embodiment of the technique suggests vertical search engines and topic-specific search results along with the search results from the general search engine.