Google Has Published a Patent on How They Might Handle How-to Queries
https://gofishdigital.comGoogle has been granted a patent on how they might handle how-to queries.
It talks about:
- How Google May Identify How-to Queries – looking at things like key phrases containing how to, tell me how, where can I get instructions, ?, etc
- How Google May Group How-to Queries – Contextual similarity matching of phrases, Analysis of search results and/or search result documents related to the how-to query, etc
- How they might determine a confidence measure when there are multiple sources – based on freshness, inbound links, outbound links ( Indicating the comprehensiveness of the source), frequency of visits to the given source, natural language processing techniques, etc
- etc
It’s interesting to see some of the points Google is considerin in the patent to determine confidence like outbound links and frequency of visits, etc