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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2010
Deepak Ravichandran, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dandapani Sivakumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rohan Seth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shumeet Baluja, Leesburg, VA (US);
Deepak Ravichandran, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dandapani Sivakumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rohan Seth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shumeet Baluja, Leesburg, VA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting local search queries. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a search query log that includes data specifying search queries corresponding to particular geographic regions and for at least one of the search queries corresponding to the particular geographic region generating a geo-query count that represents a total number of times that the search query was received over a specified period. The geo-query count is compared to a corresponding expected query count for the search query, where the expected query count is a baseline number of times that the query is expected to be received. In response to determining that the search query has a geo-query count that exceeds the corresponding expected query count by at least a threshold amount, the particular query is classified as a local query for the particular geographic region.