Search Result Validation via User Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing search services often provide irrelevant or deleted webpages in search results due to the lack of validation of selected webpages, leading to user inconvenience and mistrust.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that determine the validity of a selected webpage by a first user and correct search results for a second user by removing or indicating invalid webpages, ensuring only valid webpages are displayed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If search results include all pre-stored webpages without validation, then search coverage is complete, but search result reliability deteriorates due to deleted or irrelevant webpages
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary validation of webpages by monitoring whether selected webpages can be successfully accessed before including them in search results. This advance checking prevents deleted or broken webpages from appearing in results, improving reliability without requiring users to waste time clicking invalid links.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from webpage access attempts to determine validity. When a user selects a webpage and the system detects it cannot be accessed (returns error or empty content), this feedback is used to exclude the webpage from future search results, continuously improving result quality.
2Reliability
If search results are validated in real-time, then search result accuracy improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-validation by automatically checking webpage accessibility using its own resources. The search system monitors webpage validity through automated access attempts and error detection, eliminating the need for external validation services and keeping the system relatively simple while maintaining high accuracy.
3Productivity
If all webpages are searched without selection tracking, then search completeness is maintained, but search efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual webpage validation with automated electronic monitoring. Instead of relying on users to report broken links, the system automatically tracks webpage accessibility through programmatic access attempts, substituting mechanical user feedback with automated digital monitoring to improve efficiency while preserving validity information.
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AI summary
A method and system for providing search results only inclusive of valid webpage(s) to a user is disclosed, the method comprising: receiving a first search query from a first user; providing to the first user first search results obtained in response to the first search query; determining whether a webpage selected by the first user from the first search results is valid or not; receiving a second search query from a second user; providing to the second user second search results obtained in response to the second search query if it is determined that the webpage selected by the first user is valid; and correcting the second search results obtained in response to the second search query and providing the corrected second search results to the second user if it is determined that the webpage selected by the first user is not valid and is included in the second search results.