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Bill Slawski provides insight to Yahoo's "Also Try" suggestions by means of the "Automatic relevance and variety checking for web and vertical search engines" patent.

Doing the math: Determining the applications functions by using simple query log vs search results comparison.
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from SpostareDuro 173 days ago #
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Meant to say "patent application"...oops

from billslawski 172 days ago #
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Thanks, Kim!

"Also Try" results can provide some insight into recently popular related terms in search queries at Yahoo, which is nice.

I also like how the process in this patent application explores a method for the search engine to try to make sure that the search results they are showing are relevant and provide variety. 

from SpostareDuro 172 days ago #
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Why..you're welcome Sir Slawski..

I agree it's an interesting topic..It's encouraged me think along a different channel in my studies. Thanks for the education.


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