Usually when you search for results using queries with the help of search engines, you will get details including web pages and URL links.
A recent patent application from Microsoft describes how images could be displayed as web pages to the searchers, when search results are being shown. This patent application also considers how images could be displayed to the users, if there is more than one image in a single page.
The search engine will determine the importance of each image in the website using automated process. Based on the features of the image, the dominance will be evaluated. If different images have same dominance, one that is more relevant to the query will be considered for display. The features generally considered include the size of the image, the location of the web page etc.
For this patent, Microsoft explored different image level features as well as page level features. This even included the features from a website level. Thus, images will help in determining the page rank by the search engines. As a result, this will change the interests of website users, especially search engine users when using Microsoft search engine patent in getting images for their searches.
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