Abstract: Search results may be provided to a user. A search query may be received from the user. A query feature vector may be formed for the search query. The query feature vector may be compared with news feature vectors associated with documents related to current events. An augmented query feature vector may be formed based on results of the comparison of the query feature vector with the news feature vectors. The augmented query feature vector may be compared with feature vectors related to target documents. Search results that include target documents may be identified based on results of the comparison of the augmented query feature vector with the feature vectors related to the target documents. The user may be made able to perceive at least some of the identified search results.

Abstract: A system and method for improving the relevance of search results is disclosed. Voters who may be human searchers or guides may review search results or other review items associated with a search request or other reference item. A review may be activated based on a usage indicator(s) which may improve utilization of guides. A vote by a voter may be weighted based on a voting history associated with the voter and one or more reference voters who may be designated by the system. A voter may be presented with a group of items for review including simultaneously. A number of comparison voting sessions or elections may be used to determine a rating or ranking of a review item associated with a reference item.

Abstract: A social network system that provides a keyword search result set from content within the social network receives from an enterprise application a business object and an associated system of record, and generates a social object for the social network, where the social object corresponds to the business object and associated system of record. The system generates a plurality of conversations related to the social object, where each conversation comprises content. The system indexes each of the conversations as a conversation document and receives a keyword search term. The system then searches for the keyword search term within the conversation documents, and generates a result set of relevant conversations in response to the searching, where the relevant conversations are displayed in order of relevance.

Abstract: A method for indexing documents may include receiving a first set of topics relating to a text of a document and a weight for each topic in the first set, where the weight represents how strongly the topic is associated with the document, and generating an update to an index by inserting a reference to the document for each of the topics in the first set. A second set of topics relating to the text of the document and a weight for each topic in the second set may be received. An update to the index may be generated by inserting the reference to the document for topics in the second set that are not in the first set and removing the reference to the document for topics in the first set that are not in the second set.

Abstract: Media and methods are provided for creating and operating a keyword expression language. Syntax is generated as an abbreviation to represent a list of keywords. The syntax is executed as part of the keyword expression language to provide keywords. The syntax includes tokens that substitute for groups of information. Advertisers generate syntax which is subsequently used by a third-party to match to search queries and ads. The third-party may also generate keywords to match to the search queries and ads. The keywords are used to trigger advertising over the Internet.

Abstract: A method for searching a mailbox of a user to identify and present results relevant to the user's requirements. The mailbox comprises a plurality of e-mails. The method comprises receiving an input from the user specifying the user's requirements. The received input is used to identify one or more contexts of a search. The search is then conducted in the mailbox based on the identified context(s) to identify one or more results relevant to the input. The results are e-mails and/or e-mail attachments that match the user's requirements. The identified results are then ranked according to the extent of relevance to the received input. The results are ranked based on a plurality of pre-defined conditions. The results are then presented to the user on a display at the computer according to the ranking.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for generating descriptions of matching resources in a manner that takes into account the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about the matching resources. For example, after the search engine identifies matching resources based on the query terms, the search engine determines the kinds of available sources of information about each matching resource. For each matching resource, based on the kinds of available sources of information about the matching resource, one of a plurality of processes is selected to generate a description for the matching resource. Using the content-sensitive description generation techniques described herein, a single result set may include abstracts that were generated using several different processes, where the difference in process corresponds to a difference in the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about each matching resource.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and computer program products for information retrieval from multiple documents by proximity searching for search queries. A method includes generating an index for the multiple documents, wherein the index includes words in snippets in the documents. An input search query is processed against the index by searching query terms over the snippets to introduce term proximity information implicitly in the information retrieval. Results of multiple sentence level search operations are combined as output.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining eligible content items. In one example, the determination is based, at least in part, on information about at least one previously presented content item.

Abstract: A system for finding and presenting content items in response to keystrokes entered by a user on an input device having a known layout of overloaded keys selected from a set of key layouts. The system includes a database containing content items and terms characterizing the content items; input logic for receiving keystrokes from the user and building a string corresponding to incremental entries by the user, each item in the string having the set of alphanumeric symbols associated with a corresponding keystroke; mapping logic to map the string to the database to find the most likely content items corresponding to the incremental entries, the mapping logic operating in accordance with a defined error model corresponding to the known layout of overloaded keys; and presentation logic for ordering the most likely content items identified by the mapping logic and for presenting the most likely content items.

Abstract: A method for determining the significance of a web page, or a portion thereof, is disclosed. Accordingly, a search engine or some other application analyzes user-selected content portions (as well as user-provided comments associated with the portions) of a document to determine a document relevance score (e.g. Content Selection Rank) for the document containing the user-selected content portions. The particular algorithm for determining the document relevance score will vary depending upon the particular implementation, but may generally be based upon an analysis of the number and quality of user-selected portions, associated comments, the ratings of the user making the selections and the ratings of users contributing to interactions (such as sharing) with the portions. Based on this analysis, the document is assigned a document relevance score, which is used for processing the document in accordance with instructions associated with a search query.

Abstract: The systems and methods described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by visually depicting the presence/absence of a set of query terms in a set of paragraphs across a set of documents.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a target template and processing the target template to identify at least one component of the target template. The method also includes searching at least one collection of content to identify at least a first instance of content that substantially matches the component of the target template. The first instance of content is presented as substantially matching the component. Finally, a first arrangement that includes the first instance of content is created. Such a first arrangement is associated with a mash-up related to the target template.

Abstract: A document analysis system receives multiple concepts along with multiple reference documents and generates sensory indicators that assist a researcher in assessing the relevance of each of the documents to the concepts. In one exemplary aspect, the document analysis system displays a table of keywords separated into blocks, each block of keywords corresponding to one of the concepts. Each block is colored according to the prevalence of any keyword within a given keyword group. The color of a block thus indicates the relative presence of a concept in the document. The document analysis system also determines a unique color for each block of keywords for highlighting in the text of the document. In this manner a researcher can quickly identify passages that contain multiple concepts. Additionally, the researcher is provided the ability to quickly locate reference characters, figure numbers and patent numbers in the document.

Abstract: An online article is enhanced by displaying, in association with the article, supplemental content that includes entities that are extracted from the article and/or entities that are related to entities that are extracted from the article. The supplemental content further includes information about each of the entities. The information about an entity may be obtained by searching for the entity in one or more searchable repositories of data. For example, the supplemental content may include, for each entity, video, image, web, and/or news search results. The supplemental content may further include information such as stock quotes, abstracts, maps, scores, and so on. The entities are selected using a variety of analyses and ranking techniques based on contextual factors such as user-specific information, time-sensitive popularity trends, grammatical features, search result quality, and so on. The entities may further be selected for purposes such as generating ad-based revenue.

Abstract: The application provides a search results display method, device, system and a computer storage medium, the method includes: acquiring ordering factors and corresponding ordering weight information in response to a first selection operation of the user; determining an order of the search results according to the ordering factors and corresponding ordering weight information; and displaying the search results after adjusting the order. The present application can flexibly fit the individualized search intention of the user.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to conduct a search within one or more channels and to produce search results based not only upon one or more search tokens, but also contextual characteristics, such as contextual characteristics provided by a user and/or contextual characteristics associated with the one or more channels. For example, a method is provided that receives input defining a search to be conducted within at least one channel. The input defining the search includes at least one search token and at least one context element. The method also causes a search request to be issued that includes a description of the search. Further, the method receives search results based upon the at least one search token and a combination of the at least one context element that was received and/or at least one context element that is defined by the respective channel.

Abstract: A strategy is described for delivering requested books to users along with customized bookmarks or other functional objects. An exemplary bookmark can include various informational items, including an informational item that describes the delivered book, an informational item that rates the desired book, an informational item that recommends one or more other books based on various factors, and an informational item that provides a call-to-action. The call-to-action encourages the user to access an electronic service to review the delivered book, purchase one or more additional books, or take some other action. The electronic service can provide accounting which identifies and registers user actions that are motivationally linked to the information imparted by the bookmarks.

Abstract: Techniques for managing an enterprise portal workspace include identifying user context data in the enterprise portal workspace; querying, based on the user context data, a semantic network including nodes and edges, identifying at least a subset of the plurality of content items based on a match of the user context data and the metadata attributes of the plurality of content items; ranking the identified subset of the plurality of content items based on the match of the user context data and the metadata attributes of the plurality of content items; and preparing the ranked subset of the plurality of content items to display to the user in a virtual workspace of the enterprise portal workspace.

Abstract: The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for triggering rich results in response to publication queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a publication query. One or more publication search results are obtained. A rich result is triggered based on a score of the first-ranked publication result if it meets a threshold relative to other publication search results. The rich result is populated with additional metadata about the publication obtained from web resources and product resources from multiple corpora. The rich result is provided with the publication search results.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium includes code to cause a processor to receive a set of variants identified by a comparison of a test DNA sequence with a reference DNA sequence and associate at least one of the set of variants with at least one of a set of annotations each indicative of at least one criterion. The code includes code to cause the processor to filter, based on the set of annotations, the set of variants to identify a subset of variants from the set of variants. Each variant from the subset of variants is associated with at least one common annotation from the set of annotations. The code further includes code to cause the processor to present the subset of variants such that the subset of variants can be used to render a clinical diagnosis.

Abstract: A search engine for searching a corpus improves the relevancy of the results by classifying multiple terms in a search query as a single semantic unit. A semantic unit locator of the search engine generates a subset of documents that are generally relevant to the query based on the individual terms within the query. Combinations of search terms that define potential semantic units from the query are then evaluated against the subset of documents to determine which combinations of search terms should be classified as a semantic unit. The resultant semantic units are used to refine the results of the search.

Abstract: In response to a query of discernable facial attributes, the locations of distinct and different facial regions are estimated from face image data, each relevant to different attributes. Different features are extracted from the estimated facial regions from database facial images, which are ranked in base layer rankings as a function of relevance of extracted features to attributes relevant to the estimated regions, and in second-layer rankings as a function of combinations of the base layer rankings and relevance of the extracted features to common ones of the attributes relevant to the estimated regions. The images are ranked in relevance to the query as a function of the second-layer rankings.

Abstract: The present inventors devised, among other things, system, methods, and interfaces for researching, evaluating, and comparing expert witnesses. One exemplary system includes interfaces that facilitate users entering queries regarding experts based on name or subject matter and filtering search results based on damage awards, case types, attorneys, clients and date range. The system also enables side-by-side comparisons of the cumulative litigation history for multiple experts, and provides an expert challenge report that indicates whether an expert has been challenged in past litigation, the result of any challenges, the presiding judges in the any challenges, and the text of the challenged testimony.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide automatic systems and methods for associating objects in databases of a web site by rate-based tagging. The frequencies of users entering specific tag terms for objects stored in the databases of the web site are used to determine hard associations between objects and tag terms and between objects. When the frequencies of user tags exceed established thresholds, hard associations between objects and tag terms are established. When objects are identified or determined to have hard association with tag terms, the objects are determined to be more clearly associated with the corresponding tag terms. Therefore, they should be highlighted or featured in more prominent locations on web pages of the web site to increase users' confidence in content of the web site. To identify hard-associated objects, more weights can be assigned to the hard-associated objects, which allows them to be more likely to be selected for display in prominent locations.

Abstract: Some implementations include techniques and arrangements to provide document-related representative information with search results. For example, a representative query and/or representative results may be provided for one or more individual documents identified in a set of search results to supplement the search results returned in response to a received search query. The representative queries may be determined by correlating a plurality of previously submitted queries in search log data with a plurality of documents returned in response to the queries. In some implementations, click-through frequency for a particular document with respect to the plurality of queries may be taken into consideration when determining the representative queries for the particular document.

Abstract: A server device is configured to receive a comment associated with a first document, the comment corresponding to a first portion of the first document; identify a second document that includes a second portion that matches the first portion of the first document; and store the comment in association with the first document and the second document. The server device is further configured to receive, from a client device, information that the client device is accessing the second document, and transmit the comment for presentation in connection with the second document on a display associated with the client device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method may include receiving a portion of a personal name and converting the portion to a normalized portion by reducing the one or more characters to their simplest equivalents. The method may further include searching a typographical index tree and a phonetic index tree to identify one or more keys matching the normalized portion. The method may further include compiling, ranking, and presenting a plurality of suggested matches identified during the searching.

Abstract: In a method in a computer system for displaying on a display device a personal catalog of media content, a plurality of media content listings is received from a plurality of network enabled media devices. The plurality of network enabled media devices has common ownership with the computer system, which comprises a network enabled media device. The plurality of media content listings and a media content listing of the computer system are used to compile a personal catalog of media content. The personal catalog of media content is displayed on the display device.

Abstract: Techniques for creating and searching a database that stores information about a plurality of individual habitable units (IHUs) are provided. An example of an IHU is a hotel room. Image data that depicts where a plurality of IHUs reside relative to each other is placed on a base image, such as a satellite/map image. The base image is associated with a mapping that maps points on the base image to spatial (e.g., geographical) coordinates. The coordinates of the IHU may be used to generate a computer-rendered view from a window of an IHU. Also, label input is received that labels each IHU reflected in the image data with certain information. Each label indicates a value of an attribute of an IHU, such as its size, price, distance from elevators, etc. A query that targets information about each IHU may be processed and results returned that are ranked based on criteria associated with the query.

Abstract: A feature extraction device obtains a partial feature vector having the precision required for the partial document. The feature extraction device searches a document tree, and detects elements as search elements. The device calculates an inter-element distance between an extraction target element within elements of the document tree and the search element. The device refers to an exclusive element name and generates exclusivity information indicating, for the extraction target element, whether the search element is the exclusive element. The device calculates, based on an inter-element distance and the exclusivity information, a weight for a word included in the element, and relates and calculates, for each search element, based on weights, an element feature vector having each of dimensions that uniquely corresponds to a word. The device calculates based on the element feature vector, a partial document feature vector of a partial document related to the extracted target element.

Abstract: Search results may be provided to a user. A search query may be received from the user. A query feature vector may be formed for the search query. The query feature vector may be compared with news feature vectors associated with documents related to current events. An augmented query feature vector may be formed based on results of the comparison of the query feature vector with the news feature vectors. The augmented query feature vector may be compared with feature vectors related to target documents. Search results that include target documents may be identified based on results of the comparison of the augmented query feature vector with the feature vectors related to the target documents. The user may be made able to perceive at least some of the identified search results.

Abstract: The invention entails a method of Etiological prioritization based on an original symbolic model of the causative construction of singular logical relations which are built from an initiation of sensed masses in patterns, the naming of sensed patterns into words, the description of the relations of masses using specific English language primitives, the relations between masses and words, and the relations between primitive words. This process is built upon a theory and model of discretized human capabilities and learned experiential meanings. Human capabilities and learned experiential meanings are identified as singular primitives and amount to words identified and matched to singular parts that make up human capabilities and the inventive model of the experiences of the sensing and understanding of the spatiotemporal physical world.

Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to suggesting context dependent keywords for advertising. A set of seed queries can be identified from a context, where the context is a source keyword, a search query, a category, or a landing page. Moreover, the set of seed queries can be inputted to a search engine. A predetermined number of web pages returned by the search engine upon executing the set of seed queries can be retrieved. Candidate keywords can be extracted from the web pages returned by the search engine. Further, keywords from the candidate keywords can be selected from the candidate keywords based on relevance scores of the candidate keywords.

Abstract: Architecture that augments a search result entry caption with keywords related to topics currently being shared and discussed in other social network information sources. This can provide a much better idea of the content of the website or webpage. The architecture obtains a link from updates of social topics of social network information sources (e.g., social networks for people places professionals, etc.), extracts title content of a document title associated with the link, compares the title content to document text for similarity to create non-duplicative content, creates keywords related to popular social topics from the non-duplicative content, and then augments a search result entry of a search result page with the keywords of the popular social topics.

Abstract: A method for generating a relevance score for at least one candidate retrieved in a search, the method comprising: initiating a query seeking at least one the candidate based upon at least one filter selected from the group consisting of: product name, product category, company name, HS code, SIC code and any other product-related qualifier; searching at least one database for matches between the candidate and the filter, thereby generating at least one matched candidate; generating an initial relevance score for each the matched candidate; generating at least one additional score for each the matched candidate, wherein the additional score is at least one selected from the group consisting of: a reputation score, a score boost, a past behavior score, a profile match score, a preference match score and a web behavior score; and generating a final relevance score based upon the initial relevance score and the at least one additional score for each the matched candidate.

Abstract: A method is disclosed wherein a capsule is searchable, the capsule of data having data stored in multiple data stores. In use, a portion of the capsule is displayed and the searched data includes data that is not displayed but is retrievable via the search operation.

Abstract: This disclosure describes methods and systems for searching documents in a multi-tenant hosting environment. According to embodiments, to conserve hardware resources, a plurality of documents associated with a plurality of tenants may be mapped to the same search index in the multi-tenant hosting environment. In order to search documents associated only with a single tenant in the multi-tenant hosting environment, a tenant identifier is prepended to every key stored in the search index that is associated with the plurality of documents of the single tenant. Moreover, where one document links to another document within the multi-tenant hosting environment, the link is stored in a web graph when a source tenant identifier matches a target tenant identifier for the link. According to embodiments, when conducting a search, the link is resolved only if the link is stored in the web graph.

Abstract: Systems and methods that quantify document relevance for a document relative to a training corpus and select a best match or best matches are provided herein. Methods may include generating an example-based explanation for relevancy of a document to a training corpus by executing a support vector machine classifier, the support vector machine classifier performing a centroid classification of a relevant document in a term frequency-inverse document frequency features space relative to training examples in a training corpus, and generating an example-based explanation by selecting a best match for the relevant document from the training examples based upon the centroid classification.

Abstract: User characteristic information acquired from the login information of a user is stored as attribute information associated with the document information of a registered document. In accordance with login of the user, a document associated with the acquired user characteristic information is acquired based on the acquired user characteristic information and the stored user characteristic information. A display content to display pieces of information for identifying the acquired document is created. As the attribute information of the document, a weight representing the relevance between the document and each of a plurality of items included in the user characteristic information is stored in association with each other. A display content to classify, based on the weight of each item, the pieces of information for identifying the acquired document and display the information is created.

Abstract: A document management system separates building information into a variety of data sets. Each data set has at least one common attribute that links it to all other types of data sets for the building. The information for maintaining the building is stored in a manner allowing users to retrieve only selective information from a vast amount of stored information. Users can query and retrieve data sets in a vast number of combinations relating to a specific building, or floor, room, system or system component in the building.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product providing ordered search results within a search engine. Items are retrieved from a network satisfying search criteria provided by a user. Computer-related activities performed by the user, including social networking activities, are determined, and the retrieved items are ranked based on the computer-related activities. The ranking of the retrieved items is dependent upon whether any retrieved item has been referenced by the social networking activities of the user, and the search results are provided including the retrieved items in order of the ranking.

Abstract: Search results responsive to a query are generated by a search engine. If the query is “location relevant”, the results are provided to a ranker component. If the query is an entity search, then entities matching the query are ranked by distance from the user. If the query is not, and if it is not semantically charged, the entities are ranked either according to distance from the user or by search relevance. If the query is semantically charged, a semantic score is calculated for each entity. One or more threshold semantic scores are determined that divide the search results into multiple parts. The results within each part can then be ranked independently. The results within a first part are ranked according to their distance from the user, while the results in a subsequent part are ranked according to their semantical relationship to the query. The re-ranked parts are concatenated together.

Abstract: An Internet or other online service is personalized or customized based on data collected for a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons associated with communications received by a user of a computing device; receiving data associated with an online service; and filtering, using at least one processor, the data based on the plurality of person profiles, wherein the filtered data is for display to the user on the computing device.

Abstract: Classifying an electronic document in a computer-based system is disclosed. For each classification instance in a plurality of classification instances, a confidence data indicating a degree of confidence that the electronic document is associated with that classification instance is determined. A classification, based on a first classification instance in the plurality of classification instances, is assigned without human intervention to the electronic document if the confidence data associated with the first classification instance exceeds a first threshold.

Abstract: A method for managing the exchange of information is provided, wherein the method includes receiving at least one information location identifier, wherein the at least one information location identifier may be associated with at least one information portal and associating with at least one network browser. The method further includes generating an information location identifier template responsive to the at least one information portal and communicating with the at least one information portal to identify resultant information.

Abstract: A system for tasking, collecting, storing, and dispatching time-sensitive location-based information reports via an electronics communication network, comprising a central relational database management system, multiple computer-implemented services, and applications residing on computer-based mobile communication devices. The system provides: methods to convey the value of specific types of geospatial time-sensitive information from a world-wide population of information consumers to a world wide population of “eye witness” reporters (i.e.

Abstract: Determining one or more concepts associated with a query is disclosed. A query is received. A list of concepts and associated scores is received. The concepts fit within a concept hierarchy. A density function is used to evaluate the received concepts. One or more concepts are associated with the query based at least in part on the results of the density function.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing related files in a collaborative file storage system are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of files within the collaborative file storage system, wherein the plurality of files each have a relationship with the first file, and wherein the collaborative file storage system allows sharing of the plurality of files between multiple users through a network. The method further includes generating, by a system server, a list of inquiries based on the plurality of files, providing, by the system server, the list of inquiries to at least one collaborator of the first file, receiving from the at least one collaborator at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of files based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of files for access if the first file is selected.