| Yahool Inc. Patent applications |
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| 20120072281 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MONETIZE DOMAIN QUERIES IN SPONSORED SEARCH - Techniques are provided for enabling relevant search results and advertisement selections to be generated in response to domain queries. A query that is input to a search engine is received. The query is analyzed to determine whether the search query is a domain query. If the query is determined to be a domain query, at least one domain related segment is stripped from the domain query to generate a condensed query, the condensed query is tokenized into at least one token, and the token(s) is/are spell corrected to generate at least one query feature. The query feature(s) may be normalized to generate at least one normalized query feature. The query feature(s) is/are provided to an advertisement selector to be used to select one or more advertisements. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20100091448 | Cold Row Encapsulation for Server Farm Cooling System - Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to efficient cooling of data centers. Some embodiments of the invention allow encapsulation of cold rows through an enclosure and allow server fans to draw cold air from the cold row encapsulation structure to cool servers installed on the server racks. In other particular embodiments, the systems disclosed can be used to mix outside cool air into the cold row encapsulation structure to cool the servers. In some embodiments, the present invention involves using multiple cold row encapsulation structures to cool the servers installed on the racks. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20090265328 | PREDICTING NEWSWORTHY QUERIES USING COMBINED ONLINE AND OFFLINE MODELS - Methods and apparatus are described for identifying newsworthy search queries employing a machine learning approach which combines offline and online modeling to achieve a high level of accuracy as well as timeliness and scalability. | 10-22-2009 |
