US 2013/0097143 A1 · PRESENTING AGGREGATELY ENDORSED SEARCH RESULTS

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for presenting results of search queries with indications that at least a portion of such results has been endorsed by the user and/or social network connections of the user, are provided. Upon receipt of a search query, Web search results satisfying the query are determined. Satisfying search results that have been endorsed by the requesting user and/or one or more social network connections of the requesting user are identified. Upon presentation of the search results on the SERF, those results that were identified as having been endorsed by the requesting user and/or one or more social network connections of the requesting user are annotated as such. In this way, the requesting user may be able to more readily identify personally relevant results as the annotated results have been indicated to be preferences of the user and/or his or her social network connections.

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Dependent claims

One or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method for presenting, in association with search engine results pages, results of search queries with indications that at least a portion of such results has been aggregately endorsed by a plurality of users, the method comprising:

receiving an endorsement for a document from a first user;
determining that data associated with at least one of a social network application and a search application is available for the first user;
identifying at least one preference entity associated with the first user from the available data;
and
associating the document endorsement with the preference entity, wherein the document endorsement is aggregated with endorsements of the document from at least one other user associated with the at least one preference entity.

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A system for presenting, in association with search engine results pages, results of search queries with indications that at least a portion of such results has been aggregately endorsed by a plurality of users, the system comprising:

a computing device associated with a search engine having one or more processors and one or more computer-readable storage media;
and
a data store coupled with the search engine,
wherein the search engine:
receives an endorsement for a document from a first user;
determines that data associated with at least one of a social network application and a search application is available for the first user;
identifies at least one preference entity associated with the first user from the available data;
and
associates the document endorsement with the preference entity, wherein the document endorsement is aggregated with endorsements of the document from at least one other user associated with the at least one preference entity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Presenting aggregately endorsed search results

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