Patent: Relevance-Ordered Categories of Information in Search Results

Bill Slawski breaks down a newly granted Google patent Providing relevance-ordered categories of information that sheds some light on how Google may use this to provide search results on mobile devices in relevance-ordered categories.

The newly granted patent tells us that there may be some problems with providing the same rich range of results to people on mobile devices as to people using desktop computers.

In a nutshell :

The method includes receiving from a remote device a search query, generating a plurality of different category-directed result sets for the search query, determining an order for the plurality of category-directed result sets based on the search query, and transmitting the plurality of category-directed result sets to the remote device, in a manner that the result sets are to be displayed in the remote device in the determined order.

Check out the post for the full breakdown.