Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ranking search results based on the frequency of access on the search results by users of a social-networking system
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Application No.: US14615654Application Date: 2015-02-06
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Publication No.: US09864806B2Publication Date: 2018-01-09
- Inventor: Christopher Lunt , Nicholas Galbreath , Jeffrey Winner
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00 ; G06F17/30 ; G06Q30/02 ; H04L29/06 ; G06F17/22

Abstract:
Particular embodiments access a search query submitted by a first user of a social-networking system; identify one or more web pages in response to the search query; for each of the one or more web pages, determine a value indicating a number of user clicks associated with the web page by one or more second users of the social-networking system who are connected to the first user within the social-networking system; and send a set of hyperlinks for the one or more web pages, wherein hyperlinks for web pages where the value is greater than zero are visually emphasized over other hyperlinks.
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