Search Results Integrating Authoritative User Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Search engines fail to effectively incorporate authoritative users in search results, limiting user exploration and connection between users in social networking services.
Innovation Solution
A system that identifies and stores trigger queries associated with authoritative users, where queries with high scores or popularity trigger the display of these users in search results, expanding candidate queries with synonymous, related, and connected queries, and determining trigger scores based on user scores and query popularity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If search engines return traditional search results, then search results are efficient and relevant, but user exploration and connection between users are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges traditional search results with authoritative user profiles by displaying both in the search results page. The search results section and authoritative users section are combined into a unified interface, allowing users to see both conventional search results and expert user information simultaneously. This merging enables users to explore connections between users and topics while maintaining search efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The search results page is transformed into a multi-functional interface that serves both traditional search purposes and social networking functions. The page can display search results, authoritative user profiles, and facilitate user connections all within a single interface. This multi-functionality allows the system to address both search efficiency and user exploration needs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If authoritative users are displayed in search results, then user exploration and connections are promoted, but search results may become less efficient
Solution Approach 1:
The search results page is segmented into distinct sections: traditional search results section and authoritative users section. This segmentation allows users to quickly locate and access authoritative user information without it interfering with the primary search results. Users can skip straight to expert opinions when needed, reducing the time to find authoritative information while maintaining overall search efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-identifies and pre-ranks authoritative users based on their expertise in specific topics before the user performs the search. This preliminary action ensures that when authoritative users are displayed, they are already organized and ready for immediate access, eliminating the need for users to search through large datasets to find experts.
3Reliability
If trigger queries are used to identify authoritative users, then relevant experts are displayed, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback from user behavior patterns and search query analysis to continuously refine the trigger query database and authoritative user identification. By analyzing which queries lead to successful user connections and which queries benefit from expert input, the system automatically adjusts the trigger query thresholds and associations. This feedback mechanism improves expert relevance while keeping the system adaptable rather than overly complex.
Data Source
AI summary
Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of receiving authoritative user data, the authoritative user data associating one or more queries with one or more authoritative users, processing the authoritative user data to identify one or more trigger queries, each trigger query including a query that, if received, triggers a display of one or more authoritative users in response, and storing the one or more trigger queries in a trigger queries database, each trigger query being associated with a first set of authoritative users, each authoritative user in the first set of authoritative users being associated with a first score relating to a particular trigger query.