Browser Search Result Exclusion for Duplicate Removal

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Solution Overview

Problem

Duplicate search results in web searches often include links to the same web site or page, leading to inefficiencies as users may revisit uninteresting sites, making it difficult to focus on relevant results.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for web browsers to exclude selected search results, including those with related links, by allowing users to identify and remove duplicates, such as visiting a linked page, navigating back, and instructing the browser to exclude the result and related links from display.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If search results are displayed comprehensively including all links, then the quantity of search results is maximized, but duplicate and uninteresting results reduce search efficiency

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesearch efficiencyVSAvoidnumber of search results displayed

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and removes duplicate search results and uninteresting links from the search results display. When a user visits a web page and navigates back, the browser automatically excludes the current search result and other results containing links to the same web site or web page from future displays, thereby eliminating duplicates and improving search efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of requiring users to manually identify and remove duplicate results, the system inverts the approach by automatically detecting and excluding duplicates. The browser monitors user navigation behavior and proactively removes uninteresting results from the search results, turning a manual task into an automatic process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Loss of time

If all search results are displayed on multiple screens, then the quantity of results is preserved, but users spend more time navigating through uninteresting duplicates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetime spent navigating search resultsVSAvoidease of navigating search results

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The browser performs preliminary actions by pre-excluding search results that are likely to be uninteresting. When a user visits a web page and navigates back without indicating interest, the system automatically excludes not only the current result but also other results containing links to the same web site or web page, preventing future time waste on duplicate navigation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If the browser excludes only the selected search result, then the change in display is minimal, but related duplicate links remain and continue to cause inefficiencies

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesearch efficiencyVSAvoidcomplexity of exclusion logic

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The exclusion mechanism serves multiple functions simultaneously: it excludes the currently selected search result, excludes other results containing links to the same web site, and excludes results containing links to the same web page. This multi-functional approach comprehensively eliminates duplicates while maintaining a unified exclusion logic in the browser

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS8135731B2Administration of search results

Publication Date: 2012.03.13 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

Administration of search results including displaying by a browser a set of search results from a web search, each search result containing a link to a web page; selecting a search result for exclusion from display, thereby identifying a selected search result, including selecting for exclusion from display search results containing related links, wherein related links include links related to the link in the selected search result; and displaying the search results without the selected search result and without the search results containing related links.