Content search vertical
AssigneeLinkedln Corporation
InventorsGanesh Venkataraman, Shakti Dhirendraji Sinha
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Abstract
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which find a special set of keywords which, when used to search a supplemental set of search verticals (e.g., the newly added search verticals), return high quality results. When a user enters a search containing one or more keywords from the special set of keywords, the system may search both the standard set of search verticals (as normal), but also the one or more keywords may be used to search the supplemental set of search verticals. Results from both may then be presented to the user.
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A method for searching content on a social networking service, the method comprising:
- determining a set of special keywords from a corpus of documents on the social networking service;
- receiving a search query from a user;
- searching the social networking service using the search query on a standard set of search verticals to produce a first result;
- determining that the search query includes a keyword in the set of special keywords;
- responsive to determining that the search query includes a keyword in the set of special keywords, searching a supplemental set of search verticals using the keyword to produce a second result, wherein the standard set of search verticals is different than the supplemental set of search verticals;
- and
- displaying the first and second results to the user.
A system for searching content on a social networking service, the system comprising:
- a keyword processing module configured to:
- determine a set of special keywords from a corpus of documents on the social networking service;
- and
- a search module configured to:
- receiving a search query from a user;
- searching the social networking service using the search query on a standard set of search verticals to produce a first result;
- determining that the search query includes a keyword in the set of special keywords;
- responsive to determining that the search query includes a keyword in the set of special keywords, searching a supplemental set of search verticals using the keyword to produce a second result, wherein the standard set of search verticals is different than the supplemental set of search verticals;
- and
- displaying the first and second results to the user.
A machine readable medium for searching content on a social networking service, the machine readable medium storing instructions, which when performed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- determining a set of special keywords from a corpus of documents on the social networking service;
- receiving a search query from a user;
- searching the social networking service using the search query on a standard set of search verticals to produce a first result;
- determining that the search query includes a keyword in the set of special keywords;
- responsive to determining that the search query includes a keyword in the set of special keywords, searching a supplemental set of search verticals using the keyword to produce a second result, wherein the standard set of search verticals is different than the supplemental set of search verticals;
- and
- displaying the first and second results to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.