Algorithmic Listings definition
Examples of Algorithmic Listings in a sentence
Microsoft will not boost or otherwise manipulate the ranking or ordering of such Algorithmic Listings and Paid Listings in a manner contrary to the foregoing principles.
Algorithmic Listings and Paid Listings for Microsoft content, services, products, and Web sites will be processed by Microsoft’s ranking algorithms according to the same standards as listings of or from third-parties (including Yahoo!).
A properly formatted invocation of the appropriate Microsoft service API or APIs by Yahoo!, Yahoo! Affiliates or Yahoo! Syndication Partners, such as a call to the Microsoft API, to request results of a particular type of record to be returned to Yahoo! by Microsoft, such as Algorithmic Listings or Paid Listings.
After such new Microsoft API Function (or other mechanism) is available, in response to such a Query or call that uses the new Microsoft API Function (or other mechanism), Microsoft will return (or exclude) only Algorithmic Listings that are tagged with the same metadata in rank order according to each Algorithmic Listing’s relevance as determined by Microsoft’s ranking algorithms (or exclude such Results as applicable).
For example, in connection with a Web Internet Search Query for the keyword term “Jaguar,” Yahoo! may request in the call that Microsoft include Image Internet Search Algorithmic Listings in addition to Web Internet Search Algorithmic Listings.
Microsoft will comply with the Service Level Agreements (the “SLA”) attached as Exhibit B with respect to Yahoo!’s use of the Microsoft API in connection with Microsoft’s Mobile Algorithmic Listings on Yahoo! Mobile Properties and Yahoo!’s Mobile Syndication Partner Properties.
Outside of the Microsoft API, Microsoft will not include different, or rerank or reorder, Algorithmic Listings for display on Microsoft O&O Properties or the properties of its syndication partners.
As of the Effective Date, a Query on ▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇ for the keyword term “Jaguar” returns subsets of Results (each a “Results Subset”), including (i) Algorithmic Listings from Image Internet Search of Jaguar animals and (ii) Algorithmic Listings from Web Internet Search that are categorized into different groupings under headers such as “Jaguar Dealers,” “Jaguar Parts,” “Jaguar Forum,” and “Used Jaguar,” and (iii) Algorithmic Listings from Video Internet Search of Jaguar animals.
Yahoo! further has the right to determine whether to show any distinct content category of Mobile Algorithmic Listings (e.g., web, image, video) and reorder any such content category on the Mobile Results Page (provided that Mobile Algorithmic Listings are not re-ordered within a content category).
During the Term and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Agreement and this Exhibit, in response to a Mobile Query, Yahoo!, for itself and its Mobile Syndication Partners, shall have the right (but not the obligation) to display the Mobile Algorithmic Listings returned by the Microsoft Mobile API in the Mobile Results Pages in accordance with Section 2.1.2(a) – (d) of the Agreement.