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Posted on  Jul 28,2009  04:07

Microsoft launches “Page Hunt” game

Microsoft has announced a little game that it’s created to try and improve the search results on its Google competitor Bing. It’s called Page Hunt, a browser-based game and asks you to guess what searches would lead you to a displayed page.

If the query you search for has the website in its top five results, you get points. 100 for #1. 90 for #2, 80 for #3, etc. If you can get a page to display while avoiding frequently-used queries, you get bonus points.

The value comes because Microsoft gets to see what words people would associate with certain pages. If everyone labels a page something that it doesn’t have in its database, then it can introduce that term into its results.

The researchers behind the project – Chris Quirk and Raman Chandrasekar at Microsoft, and colleagues from Georgia Tech and the Chinese University of Hong Kong – have discovered one thing already – the longer a page’s URL, the harder it was for users to match the page to query words.

What’s your best score? We got 1955 on our first go, so that’s the number to beat.

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