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Case 1:20-cv-03010-APM
Document 1033
Filed 08/05/24
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first must decide which results are worth scoring at a more granular level, and then score those hundreds of sites to determine which top 10 or so should be surfaced to the user. Id. at 6331:13–6332:11 (Nayak); infra Section II.G.

32. The above-described culling and sorting process by which a GSE produces search results is illustrated below:

DXD17 at 2.

C. Types of Queries

33. A GSE can supply information from a broad variety of sources, covering nearly any topic. Tr. at 8708:16-20 (Israel) (agreeing that GSEs “can handle virtually any type of query”). Thus, it is “the first place that you can turn to,” and “a place that you go to for the vast majority of your information needs.” Id. at 3670:6-18 (Ramaswamy); see also id. at 6511:11-23 (Whinston) (same); id. at 7027:23-25 (J. Baker) (“[A] general search user can get satisfactory responses to multiple queries from multiple sources, all without switching sites.”); id. at 10471:17-25 (Oard)

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