Search Result Aggregation for Entity Information Completeness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Search engines often provide users with a list of individual resources rather than relevant information about a specific entity, such as a book, making it difficult for users to find comprehensive information related to their queries.
Innovation Solution
The system generates a 'rich result' by combining information from multiple sources, including book resources and web resources, to provide users with a formatted presentation containing links, publisher details, publication year, page count, snippets, and purchase options, triggered when a high-scoring search result meets specific thresholds.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If search engines provide a list of individual resources, then the quantity of search results is increased, but the comprehensiveness of information about a specific entity (e.g., book) deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual search results about the same entity (book) into a single enriched result card that aggregates information from multiple sources including publication details, reviews, pricing, and related resources, thereby maintaining information completeness while reducing the number of separate result items
Solution Approach 2:
The enriched result card serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides publication information, pricing details, user reviews, related book recommendations, and direct purchase links, replacing what would otherwise require multiple separate search result items
2Device complexity
If search engines provide individual resource listings, then the simplicity of result presentation is maintained, but the ease of accessing comprehensive information about a specific entity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The enriched result card segments information into distinct organized sections (publication details, reviews, pricing, related books) within a single unified component, making comprehensive information easily accessible while maintaining visual clarity and organization
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds vertical dimension to search results by expanding individual result entries into multi-section cards that vertically organize multiple types of information, allowing comprehensive data presentation without horizontal complexity
3Productivity
If search engines provide basic search results, then the processing speed is maintained, but the comprehensiveness of publication information deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre- aggregates and caches publication information, reviews, and metadata from multiple sources in advance, so that when a search query is executed, the enriched result card can be quickly assembled from pre-processed data rather than querying multiple sources in real-time
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for triggering rich results in response to queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query. One or more search results are obtained from a first corpus. A rich result is triggered based on a score of the first-ranked search result if it meets a threshold relative to other search results. The rich result is populated with additional metadata about the first-ranked search result obtained from a second corpus. The rich result is provided in response to the query.