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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2015
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Rohan Seth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shumeet Baluja, Leesburg, VA (US);
Michael Jesse Chu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Joshua J. Sacks, San Carlos, CA (US);
David Marwood, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michele Covell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for ranking content using location-based query log analysis. The method comprises: identifying a region defining an area of interest including identifying a plurality of content items that are associated with the region; evaluating query logs associated with users that submitted queries associated with the region to determine a ranking associated with the plurality of content items; receiving a request for content associated with the region; and providing one or more of the content items based at least in part on the ranking.