Abstract: A method is provided of enriching an entry for an entity in a local index of a search engine with tags. The method comprises obtaining location-related social media messages from within a neighborhood of an entity; determining from the obtained messages one or more terms that are unique to the entity; individually determining one or more co-occurring terms for the one or more unique terms; and using the one or more co-occurring term as tags to label the entity in the local index. Furthermore, a method is provided of retrieving social media messages associated with search results.

Abstract: Implementations described herein request recommendations from recipients of a recommendation request. A requester of a recommendation defines objective criteria to limit search results relating to the recommendation. These objective criteria can be uniquely specified in a recommendation request with a location or a link to a location in which recipients of the recommendation request can enter a search query to search for entities to recommend. The requester shares the recommendation request with a set of recipients via one or more communication channels (e.g., over a network). The recipients each then conduct a search for an entity to recommend using an unstructured query. The search results are ranked based on the objective criteria entered by the requester and their relevance to the entered query terms. Each recipient can recommend one or more of the search results that appear in response to the recommendation request.

Abstract: A method is provided of enriching an entry for an entity in a local index of a search engine with tags. The method comprises obtaining location-related social media messages from within a neighborhood of an entity; determining from the obtained messages one or more terms that are unique to the entity; individually determining one or more co-occurring terms for the one or more unique terms; and using the one or more co-occurring term as tags to label the entity in the local index. Furthermore, a method is provided of retrieving social media messages associated with search results.