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US 2014/0181095 A1Published application
Method for providing search results including relevant location based content
AssigneeJohn Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust
InventorJohn Nicholas Gross
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Abstract
A search engine considers events and stories described in electronic documents, a location of a searcher/reviewer, and a situs associated with a query and content of the document to determine how/if they should be presented to users as part of relevant search results.
Claims1
A method of responding to a search query to a user with a computing system comprising:
- a) processing a query from a user including a first search term with the computing system;
- b) automatically determining a geographic region associated with said user with the computing system;
- c) automatically determining if said first search term relates to a news story describing events or topics associated with said geographic region;
- wherein said determining is performed by analyzing content of published online news stories from local sources within or proximate to said geographic region with the computing system;
- d) automatically selecting first news content from said local sources relating to said first search term with the computing system when said first search term relates to a news story published within a first time interval;
- e) presenting search results to said user with the computing system for said query including said first news content in response to said query directed to said first search term.
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