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Patent Inventor Names
Alpesh S. Patel0
Stephen Joseph Moffett0
Marshall Uy Alexander0
Gilbert C. Yu0
Date of Patent
May 31, 2011
0Patent Application Number
119424980
Date Filed
November 19, 2007
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
Embodiments of the invention improve the quality of search results returned for a given set of search terms based on metadata associated with the user performing the search. A search query may specify metadata elements to consider in ranking the search results. The metadata used may include bookmarks set by the user (either locally or at a social bookmaking site), group bookmarks, etc. In such a case, search results may be reordered to improve the ranking of websites that are both in the search results and in the bookmarks.
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