Query Suggestion Filtering for Objectionable Image Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Search systems often provide inaccurate query suggestions that lead to undesirable search results, including objectionable images, which may not satisfy users' informational needs and can be unexpectedly displayed, potentially offending users.
Innovation Solution
Implement a filtering criterion to evaluate query suggestions independently of search results, preventing objectionable image search results from being initially displayed unless explicitly requested by the user, and allowing full unfiltered results to be shown upon additional user input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If query suggestions are provided to help users refine their search, then user convenience is improved, but the risk of displaying objectionable search results increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary filtering of query suggestions against a set of filtering criteria before presenting them to the user. This advance evaluation prevents potentially objectionable search results from being displayed in the first place, while still providing helpful query suggestions for legitimate searches.
Solution Approach 2:
A filtering criterion evaluation acts as an intermediary between the query suggestion generation and the final display to the user. This intermediary layer evaluates each query suggestion against predefined criteria and blocks only those that would lead to objectionable results, allowing most helpful suggestions to pass through unchanged.
2Loss of information
If all predicted search results are displayed to satisfy user information needs, then completeness of information is improved, but the likelihood of displaying undesired content increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system evaluates query suggestions against filtering criteria before displaying associated search results. This preliminary filtering action removes potentially harmful content while preserving legitimate search results, achieving both completeness and safety.
Solution Approach 2:
The filtering is applied selectively to individual query suggestions based on their specific characteristics. Each query suggestion is evaluated independently against the filtering criteria, allowing the system to block only the specific suggestions that would lead to objectionable results while displaying all other relevant results.
3Reliability
If query suggestions are filtered to prevent objectionable results, then user safety is improved, but the accuracy of query suggestions may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The filtering criterion evaluation serves as an intermediary that preserves accurate query suggestions while blocking only those that would lead to objectionable results. The filtering process maintains the accuracy of legitimate suggestions by evaluating them against objective criteria rather than arbitrarily removing suggestions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from the filtering criterion evaluation to determine which query suggestions to display. This feedback mechanism allows the system to maintain high accuracy in displayed suggestions by systematically evaluating each suggestion against predefined safety criteria.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for selectively presenting search results responsive to search query suggestions. In one aspect includes receiving a partial search query including one or more characters; generating a first query suggestion based on the partial search query; determining whether the first query suggestion meets a filtering criterion, where the filtering criterion is a criterion specifying one or more filtering criterion topics against which the first query suggestion is evaluated independent of search results responsive to the first query suggestion; providing the first query suggestion; and in response to determining that the first query suggestion meets the filtering criterion, preventing a first set of one or more images responsive to the first query suggestion from being presented to a user.