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  "id": 6256,
  "title": "Questions about the duplicate QueryIds",
  "url": "/competitions/yandex-personalized-web-search-challenge/discussion/6256",
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  "post_date": "2013-11-08T02:34:15.583Z",
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  "content": "<p>There are some duplicate QueryIds with different serpids, but their&nbsp;ListOfURLsAndDomains are partially similar, for example, in session 5, there are two records with QueryId 18317035, but the first with serpid 0 has the ListOfURLsAndDomains &quot;59774327,4655976 59774178,4655976 35294524,3323733 36727600,3414810 47651546,4030355 63269587,4842946 3795813,503751 58110838,4572825 20974273,2147079 50738005,4222407 &quot;, another with serpid 1 has ListOfURLsAndDomains &quot;59774327,4655976 59774178,4655976 36727600,3414810 47651546,4030355 63269587,4842946 3795813,503751 58110838,4572825 20974273,2147079 20974274,2147079 845922,133787 &quot;, we can see that the first two urls are the same. </p>\n<p>Should we regard this as different queries or they are related&#65311;</p>\n<p>Thanks&#65281;</p>",
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      "id": "33396",
      "postDate": "11/08/2013 02:34:15",
      "content": "<p>There are some duplicate QueryIds with different serpids, but their&nbsp;ListOfURLsAndDomains are partially similar, for example, in session 5, there are two records with QueryId 18317035, but the first with serpid 0 has the ListOfURLsAndDomains &quot;59774327,4655976 59774178,4655976 35294524,3323733 36727600,3414810 47651546,4030355 63269587,4842946 3795813,503751 58110838,4572825 20974273,2147079 50738005,4222407 &quot;, another with serpid 1 has ListOfURLsAndDomains &quot;59774327,4655976 59774178,4655976 36727600,3414810 47651546,4030355 63269587,4842946 3795813,503751 58110838,4572825 20974273,2147079 20974274,2147079 845922,133787 &quot;, we can see that the first two urls are the same. </p>\n<p>Should we regard this as different queries or they are related&#65311;</p>\n<p>Thanks&#65281;</p>",
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      "id": "33397",
      "postDate": "11/08/2013 03:17:00",
      "content": "<p>This question/topic should probably be merged with my question:&nbsp;http://www.kaggle.com/c/yandex-personalized-web-search-challenge/forums/t/6255/uniqueness-of-queryid</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I am finding something similar.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I suppose the explanation could be that a QueryID is defined in terms of the associated set of TermIDs (&quot;ListOfTerms&quot;), rather than a particular Query action (which includes ListOfTerms, SERPID, ListofURLSAndDomains, etc.).</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Admins, can you please clarify?</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Thanks</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "33402",
      "postDate": "11/08/2013 05:33:41",
      "content": "<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">You're right. A QueryId just denotes a piece of text input submitted as a query (e.g., [facebook] or [twitter ipo]).</span></p>",
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      "id": "33413",
      "postDate": "11/08/2013 11:16:56",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for replying! But I'm still confused, the two queries(same QueryID 18317035 and SessionID 5) also have the same ListOfTerms (4306462,3557148,3668262,2867406,3783619,3457588), but their ListofURLSAndDomains are different.&nbsp; It seems that a user submited the same piece of text twice but received different results? Can someone clarify this please?</p>",
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      "id": "33414",
      "postDate": "11/08/2013 12:03:43",
      "content": "<p>Any results of any search engine are never stable as a rule even within the same search session. So, it might happen by various reasons. For example, the search engine might experiment with short-context personalization and might take previous queries into account when returning SERP for the same query next time. Or, that user might check the box &quot;show results only in English&quot; and hence get a different result lists. Those rare user actions are not reflected in the shared logs, so what you see might be artifacts of that kind of behaviour.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "33415",
      "postDate": "11/08/2013 12:26:03",
      "content": "<p>Thank you!</p>",
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      "id": 33397,
      "author_name": "fellows",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/08/2013 03:17:00",
      "content": "<p>This question/topic should probably be merged with my question:&nbsp;http://www.kaggle.com/c/yandex-personalized-web-search-challenge/forums/t/6255/uniqueness-of-queryid</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I am finding something similar.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I suppose the explanation could be that a QueryID is defined in terms of the associated set of TermIDs (&quot;ListOfTerms&quot;), rather than a particular Query action (which includes ListOfTerms, SERPID, ListofURLSAndDomains, etc.).</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Admins, can you please clarify?</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Thanks</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 33402,
      "author_name": "eugene1751",
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      "post_date": "11/08/2013 05:33:41",
      "content": "<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">You're right. A QueryId just denotes a piece of text input submitted as a query (e.g., [facebook] or [twitter ipo]).</span></p>",
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      "id": 33413,
      "author_name": "wangjing1",
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      "post_date": "11/08/2013 11:16:56",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for replying! But I'm still confused, the two queries(same QueryID 18317035 and SessionID 5) also have the same ListOfTerms (4306462,3557148,3668262,2867406,3783619,3457588), but their ListofURLSAndDomains are different.&nbsp; It seems that a user submited the same piece of text twice but received different results? Can someone clarify this please?</p>",
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      "id": 33414,
      "author_name": "serdyukovpv",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/08/2013 12:03:43",
      "content": "<p>Any results of any search engine are never stable as a rule even within the same search session. So, it might happen by various reasons. For example, the search engine might experiment with short-context personalization and might take previous queries into account when returning SERP for the same query next time. Or, that user might check the box &quot;show results only in English&quot; and hence get a different result lists. Those rare user actions are not reflected in the shared logs, so what you see might be artifacts of that kind of behaviour.</p>",
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      "id": 33415,
      "author_name": "wangjing1",
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      "post_date": "11/08/2013 12:26:03",
      "content": "<p>Thank you!</p>",
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