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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsMeir Ben Itay, Min Liu, Daniel Buchmueller, Jose Saura, Gur Kimchi
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Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for responding to a search query with search results where the search query includes a social source operation are presented. Upon receiving a search query directed to a query topic, and including a social source operation, the search engine identifies search results corresponding to the query topic, and further obtains social data necessary to satisfy the social source operation of the search query. The search results are modified in light of the social source operation according to the obtained social data. One or more search results pages are generated according to the modified search results and at least one of the search results pages is returned to the requesting computer user.
A computer-implemented method for responding to a search query from a computer user, the method comprising:
A computer-readable medium bearing computer-executable instructions which, when executed on a computing system comprising at least a processor executing the instructions retrieved from the medium, carry out a method for responding to a search query from a user, the method comprising:
A computer-implemented method for responding to a search query from a computer user, the method comprising:
The computer system of claim 21, wherein determining that a social source operation should be implied to satisfy the search query comprises determining that the computer user is maintaining a connection to the social site.
The computer system of claim 21, wherein determining that a social source operation should be implied to satisfy the search query comprises determining that the computer user has established a preference to obtain social data from a social site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.