Techniques for Using Similarity to Enhance Relevance in Search Results

摘要

Techniques include receiving a search query from a user device, performing a search for software applications using the search query, and generating a preliminary set of one or more software applications identified during the search. The techniques further include generating a similarity set of one or more software applications that are each similar to at least one of the one or more software applications of the preliminary set, generating a modified set of one or more software applications based on the preliminary set and the similarity set, and transmitting the modified set to the user device. In some examples, generating the modified set based on the preliminary set and the similarity set includes one or more of increasing a rank value of an existing software application included in the preliminary set, and adding a new software application not included in the preliminary set to the preliminary set.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a search query from a user device; performing a search for software applications using the search query; generating a preliminary set of one or more software applications identified during the search, wherein each of the one or more software applications of the preliminary set is associated with a rank value that indicates a relative rank of the software application among the one or more software applications of the preliminary set; generating a similarity set of one or more software applications that are each similar to at least one of the one or more software applications of the preliminary set; generating a modified set of one or more software applications based on the preliminary set, based on the similarity set, and based on the one or more rank values associated with the one or more software applications of the preliminary set; and transmitting the modified set to the user device.