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tuesday30 Jun 2020

Patent: On How Google Picks What Query Returns a Lists of Ranked Entities

https://www.searchenginejournal.com

Bill Slawski breaks down a newly granted Google patent Generating ranked lists of entities that sheds some light on how Google picks what query returns a lists of ranked entities.

He talks about

  • The Process Behind Showing Ranked Lists of Entities
  • How Categories for Entities in Ranked Lists Are Determined
  • Ranking the Entities in These Lists
  • and more

He unpacks information about how an entity to be ranked for “best science fiction novels of 2020” from a page that had a high IR (information retrieval) score for the query, “best science fiction novels of 2020,” would potentially have a higher entity score than an entity from a page that has a high IR score for “Some OK Science Fiction novels of 2020.”

Looks at how these query  modifiers can be associated with entity lists

  • “top”
  • “of 2020”
  • “Best”
  • “Best of”

and much more.

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