Search Result Filtering by Vendor Attributes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional search engines often return misleading results due to deceptive keywords, leading to user frustration and increased server load as users are directed to irrelevant content, wasting time and resources.
Innovation Solution
A system that sorts web page information by vendor and extracts main product and industry attributes to filter out irrelevant results, ensuring that only relevant content is returned based on exact or similar matches with the search query, thereby reducing network congestion and improving search efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional search engines use keywords from documents to match search queries, then search coverage is improved, but search result accuracy deteriorates due to misleading keywords
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments web page information into multiple attributes (main product attribute, second attribute, etc.) and uses different attributes for different matching purposes. This allows the system to maintain comprehensive keyword matching while filtering out misleading keywords through attribute-based verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces vendor attributes as an intermediary layer between search keywords and document matching. By verifying whether documents belong to vendors whose attributes match the search keywords, the system filters out misleading keywords while preserving legitimate search coverage.
2Measurement precision
If users perform repeated searches to find relevant information, then search result accuracy is improved, but server load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary filtering of search results using vendor attributes before returning results to users. By pre-verifying the relevance of each document to the search query through attribute matching, the system reduces the need for users to perform repeated searches, thereby decreasing server load from multiple query cycles.
3Productivity
If misleading keywords are used to increase document exposure, then document visibility is improved, but user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary anti-action by filtering out misleading keywords before they can mislead users. The system verifies whether documents genuinely belong to vendors whose attributes match search keywords, preventing deceptive keyword matching while preserving legitimate document exposure opportunities.
4Adaptability or versatility
If all matching documents are returned to users, then search completeness is improved, but information transmission efficiency deteriorates due to irrelevant content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and verifies vendor attributes from documents and uses these attributes to filter search results. By removing documents that do not genuinely match search keywords through attribute verification, the system maintains search completeness for relevant results while eliminating irrelevant content to improve information transmission efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
Generating search results is disclosed, including: sorting a plurality of sets of web page information into one or more groups based on vendors associated with respective ones of the plurality of sets of web page information; for a group of sets of web page information associated with a vendor, determining a value included in the group of sets of web page information as an attribute value of a first attribute associated with the vendor; and determining whether a set of web page information of the group of sets of web page information associated with the vendor is to be included in search results based at least in part on whether a search query corresponds to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor.