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Web Search

UiO - 2014-04-27

Torgeir Hovden@thovden

[email protected]

Static Rank

Machine Learning

Supervised

What is the best URL for a Query Q?

Source: Cornell Eye Tracking Studyhttp://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/tj/publications/granka_etal_04a.pdf

Search Business

Users

Advertisers

Relevant Content

Publishers

Revenue

Usage Data

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R&D Investments

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Client software +

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97%

$40billion

So why are users coming to my site?

What are they looking for?

Referrer

(yes it’s a typo)

Navigation

Answering some queries locally

>50%

FromQuery => URL

toIntent => Action

Can we crowdsource training data without

violating users’ privacy?

Questions?

Torgeir Hovden

@[email protected]


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