• SEO by the Sea, Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:16 PM

Bill Slawski points to a recent patent application published by Microsoft that discusses several approaches on how they might serve up suggested query keywords.

While this is a Microsoft patent, the chances are good that other search engines are using a similar method. The patent application lists a couple of issues Microsoft is trying to solve, along with three algorithms it might use to identify query suggestions, Slawski writes. The patent filing also lists different classifications of query suggestions, such as related searches, most searched, refine by searches, and also try searches.

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