Autocomplete 2.0

Rating Relevance for results with TryRating Status shown as

PERMANENT_CLOSURE

Some Business/POI results will have a status shown as PERMANENT_CLOSURE. There is special consideration required when rating these results. Please read the below Guidelines Sections carefully –

Expected PERMANENT_CLOSURE Status (GL Section 4.16.1)

Sometimes you can expect to see results whose status is shown as PERMANENT_CLOSURE. This can happen when the permanently closed result satisfies the user intent completely AND there are no other result(s) that satisfy the actual user intent in the area of location intent.

Examples of results where PERMANENT_CLOSURE status is expected:

Single Result Queries: Queries that can only return a single valid result, which is permanently closed. This could be because the POI or business name is unique or the query contains location intents like locality or street components.
Chain queries for closed chains: All chain locations within the area of location intent are permanently closed and the closest open chain result is significantly farther away.

Rating Approach

Rate results with an expected status of PERMANENT_CLOSURE as if they were open. This means that in most cases the rating will be Excellent, because even though

they are closed, these are the best or only results that could ever be returned.

 

Unexpected PERMANENT_CLOSURE Status (GL Section 4.16.2)

These are results whose status is shown as PERMANENT_CLOSURE, but are not expected to be shown at all. Results with the status PERMANENT_CLOSURE are unexpected when there are also open results in the area of location intent that would satisfy the actual user intent fully without changing or altering the user query.

Examples of situations where results with PERMANENT_CLOSURE status are not expected:

Category queries: There are always a large number of possible results for category queries like [restaurant] or [hair salon]. Note: In cases where there is only one match for the category query within a large area and it is marked with the PERMANENT_CLOSURE status, consider it an exception and choose Business/POI is closed or does not exist, then rate it as if it were open. This should be extremely rare.
Queries with several possible interpretations: These are queries could have several possible results and/or result types available, and do not depend on PERMANENT_CLOSURE results.
Most chain queries: There are often multiple locations of a chain available within the area of location intent, and a permanently closed result does not need to be shown in these cases.

Rating Approach

Unexpected permanently closed results should be demoted by 2 for relevance which means the highest rating starts at Acceptable.

 

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