03-05-2007, 10:46 AM
Quote:Search engines dont like to show a link to the same page more than once in their search results pages - at least in the unpaid Web search part of their pages. But, most search engines also show advertisements on many search results pages, which look similar to the Web search results...
A newly granted patent from Microsoft describes what happens when links to the same page might appear more than once upon a search results page in Web search (usually one version gets filtered). It also discusses what might happen when the same displayed URL may show up more than once in the paid results listings. Part of it also discusses the instance where the same link appears in both paid results and web results...
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