Quality Scores for Queries: Structured Data, Synthetic Queries and Augmentation Queries

Augmentation Queries

Quality Scores and Augmentation Queries This past March, Google was granted a patent that involves giving quality scores to queries (the quote below is from that patent). The patent refers to high-scoring queries as augmentation queries. Interesting to see that searcher selection is one way that might be used to determine the quality scores for … Read more

Learning to Rank

My last Post was Five Years of Google Ranking Signals, and I start that post by saying that there are other posts about ranking signals that have some issues. But, there are other pages that you may want to look at while you are learning to rank web pages, and I didn’t want to turn … Read more