Surfacing user-specific data records in search

A system comprising:

• a data store for storing data records;
• and
• one or more processors configured to interact with the data store, the one or more processors being further configured to perform operations comprising:
• receiving, by the one or more processors, a search query, the search query being provided by a user;
• determining a set of user-specific data records is to be displayed in a search results page with search results, the set of user-specific data records comprising one or more user-specific data records that are specific to the user that provided the search query;
• determining a display prominence of at least one user-specific data record in the set of user-specific data records, the display prominence comprising one of a plurality of locations within the search results page, and indicating a prominence of the at least one user-specific data record when displayed in the search results page, at least one location being within a search results pane, within which the one or more search results are also displayed, wherein determining display prominence comprises:
• determining that a user-specific data record specifies an event that occurs in the future relative to a time that the query was submitted, and a time of the event;
• determining a time difference based on the time of the event specified by the user-specific data record and the time the query was submitted;
• if the time difference meets a threshold time difference, setting the display prominence to a first value in response that indicates the data record is not to be prominently displayed;
• and
• if the time difference does not meet the threshold time difference, setting the display prominence set to a second value that indicates the data record is to be prominently displayed;
• and
• providing the search results and the set of user-specific data records for display, the at least one user-specific data record being displayed based on the display prominence.

A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instruction that when executed by data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, by the one or more processors, a search query, the search query being provided by a user;
• determining a set of user-specific data records is to be displayed in a search results page with search results, the set of user-specific data records comprising one or more user-specific data records that are specific to the user that provided the search query;
• determining a display prominence of at least one user-specific data record in the set of user-specific data records, the display prominence comprising one of a plurality of locations within the search results page, and indicating a prominence of the at least one user-specific data record when displayed in the search results page, at least one location being within a search results pane, within which the one or more search results are also displayed, wherein determining display prominence comprises:
• determining that a user-specific data record specifies an event that occurs in the future relative to a time that the query was submitted, and a time of the event;
• determining a time difference based on the time of the event specified by the user-specific data record and the time the query was submitted;
• if the time difference meets a threshold time difference, setting the display prominence to a first value in response that indicates the data record is not to be prominently displayed;
• and
• if the time difference does not meet the threshold time difference, setting the display prominence set to a second value that indicates the data record is to be prominently displayed;
• and
• providing the search results and the set of user-specific data records for display, the at least one user-specific data record being displayed based on the display prominence.