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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2013
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
David L. Young, Boulder, CO (US);
Ioannis Pavlidis, Boulder, CO (US);
William Randall Watler, Evergreen, CO (US);
Kimbal J. Musk, Boulder, CO (US);
Peter J. Newcomb, Erie, CO (US);
Robert Reich, Boulder, CO (US);
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
A method and system for ranking Web pages in a Web search engine is described. One illustrative embodiment receives a Web search query from a particular user, the query including at least one keyword; identifies one or more Web pages that contain the at least one keyword; determines, for each of the one or more Web pages, a raw page ranking; adjusts the raw page ranking of each of at least one Web page among the one or more Web pages based on direct evidence of how interesting that Web page is to users to produce an adjusted page ranking, the direct evidence being derived from clickstream data collected from the users; and presents, as search results, the at least one Web page to the particular user in accordance with the adjusted page rankings.