Abstract: The invention provides for a system to select data including a reception component that receives at least one data entry from at least one data source, a processor component to determine the entropy of a word extracted from the at least one data entry, a filtering component to select reliable words, wherein reliable words are words with low entropy values, the filtering component further excluding words with high entropy values, and a transmission component to output a set of reliable words, wherein the set of reliable words is associated with the at least one data entry from which the reliable words were extracted.

Abstract: The invention provides a system to categorize user queries including an identification component that receives an original user query and identifies a what-component and a where-component using the original user query, a first classification component that analyzes and classifies the what-component of the original user query, a second classification component that analyzes and processes the where-component of the original user query, and a transmission component that sends the results of the first and second classification components and a processed user query to a backend search engine.

Abstract: A user interface including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier and a location identifier. Selection of the search identifier causing transmission of a search request from the client computer system to the server computer system and interaction with the location identifier causing transmission of a selected location from the client computer system to the server computer system.

Abstract: A user interface is provided, including an input to transmit a request from a client computer system to a server computer system, a view transmitted in response to the request form the server computer system to the client computer system and displayed at the client computer system, wherein the view may include a map and the view may be configured to enable the making of an addition to the map.

Abstract: The invention provides a user interface including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to a client computer system, the first view including a search identifier, a user interacting with the search identifier causing transmission of a search request from the client computer system to the server computer system, the search request being utilized at the server computer system to extract a plurality of search results from a search data source. A second view includes the search results, a driving direction selector, selection of which causing transmission of a driving direction request relating to a select one of the search results from the client computer system at the server computer system. A third view includes the driving directions to the selected search result and at least one of the search results other than the selected search result.

Abstract: A user interface includes a first view transmitted from a server computer system to a client computer system, the first view including a search identifier, and a second view transmitted from the server computer system in response to a user interacting with the search identifier. A search request is utilized at the server computer system to extract at least one search result from a search data source, the search result including information relating to a geographic location to the client computer system for display at the client computer system. The second view may include at least one component that may be in substantially the same location as in the first view.

Abstract: A user interface includes a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier, a user interacting with the search identifier causing transmission of a search request from the client computer system at the server computer system, wherein the search request may be compared with first and second fields of each of a plurality of search results in a data source and at least one search result may be extracted due to a comparison between the search request and the first field of the search result or the search result may be extracted due to a comparison between the search request and the second field of the search result.

Abstract: The invention provides for a system for ranking data including a first calculation component that calculates a qualitative semantic similarity score of at least one data entry from at least one data source, a second calculation component that calculates a general quantitative score of the at least one data entry from at least one data source, a third calculation component that combines the qualitative semantic similarity score and the general quantitative score of the at least one data entry from at least one data source into a vector score for the at least one data entry, and a ranking component that ranks the at least one data entry among other data entries using the vector score. General qualitative scores such as distance scores are never overruled by semantic scores.

Abstract: The invention provides a user interface including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier and a plurality of vertical search determinators, interacting with the search identifier causing transmission of a first search request from a client computer system at the server computer system, the first search request being utilized at the server computer system to extract at least one search result from a search data source, the search result including information relating to a geographic location and the search result depends on a respective one of the vertical search determinators, and a second view, at least part of which may be transmitted from the server computer system to the client computer system for display at the client computer system, wherein the second view may include the search result.

Abstract: The invention provides for a method of building a search database including associating a plurality of text descriptions associated with a first set of locations with a first category associated with all of the locations of the first set to build a first combined text description, and associating the combined text description with each one of the locations of the first set.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a response to a query. Multiple users' search engine activity in regard to a query is correlated. A response is provided based upon this correlated search engine activity information. For one embodiment of the invention, in the context of search engine result optimization, the user activity and/or user information of multiple users, during a search session, is correlated with queries to effect an evolving association between queries and the organization and presentation of documents. Systems in accordance with such embodiments employ the ability to store users' activity over the entire search session, thus making possible the correlation of a number of different types of user activity and user information. The use of correlated user input allows such systems to provide relevant search results without the limitations imposed by the key-word-based systems of the prior art.

Abstract: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.

Abstract: An enhanced natural language information retrieval technique tokenizes an incoming query, comparing the tokenized representation against a collection of query templates. Query templates include a first portion having one or more query patterns representative of a query and in a form suitable for matching the tokenized representation of an incoming query. Query templates also include one or more information retrieval commands that are designed to return information relevant to those query patterns in its first portion. The enhanced natural language information retrieval technique selects those query templates that are determined to be most relevant to the incoming query (via its tokenized representation) and initiates one or more information retrieval commands associated with the selected query templates.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for serving at least one message in conjunction with an advertisement for display on a World Wide Web page. The advertisement and message may be thematically related and displayed close to each other on the Web page. The advertisement and message may form all or part of a rich media file that is called when the Web page is served to a user device for display on the user device. The message may be tailored to include information specific to a user viewing the Web page, message and advertisement to direct the user's attention to the advertisement or otherwise enhance the advertisement.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for serving at least one message in conjunction with an advertisement for display on a World Wide Web page. The advertisement and message may be thematically related and displayed close to each other on the Web page. The advertisement and message may form all or part of a rich media file that is called when the Web page is served to a user device for display on the user device. The message may be tailored to include information specific to a user viewing the Web page, message and advertisement to direct the user's attention to the advertisement or otherwise enhance the advertisement.

Abstract: An enhanced natural language information retrieval technique tokenizes an incoming query, comparing the tokenized representation against a collection of query templates. Query templates include a first portion having one or more query patterns representative of a query and in a form suitable for matching the tokenized representation of an incoming query. Query templates also include one or more information retrieval commands that are designed to return information relevant to those query patterns in its first portion. The enhanced natural language information retrieval technique selects those query templates that are determined to be most relevant to the incoming query (via its tokenized representation) and initiates one or more information retrieval commands associated with the selected query templates.

Abstract: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.

Abstract: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.

Abstract: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.

Abstract: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.