Comparative search within user-generated content

A method for searching within user-generated reviews for multiple entities, the method comprising:

• receiving, from a client device, a search query to search within a plurality of user-generated reviews relating to a plurality of entities, the search query including one or more search terms;
• identifying, in response to the search query, a set of user-generated reviews from the plurality of user-generated reviews that correspond to the one or more search terms of the search query;
• generating a list of entities based on the set of user-generated reviews, the list of entities including a first entity and a second entity, the second entity being different from the first entity;
• and
• providing the list of entities for display on a user interface of a client device.

A method for searching within user-generated reviews for multiple entities, the method comprising:

• receiving a primary search query to search of corpus of entities;
• obtaining, in response to the primary search query, a search result including a list of entities that are responsive to the primary search query;
• receiving a secondary search query to search a plurality of user-generated reviews for the list of entities such that the secondary search query functions as a filter on the search result;
• identifying a set of user-generated reviews associated with the list of entities from the plurality of user-generated reviews;
• generating a filtered list of entities based on the set of user-generated reviews, the filtered list of entities including a first entity and a second entity, the second entity being different from the first entity;
• and
• providing the filtered list of entities for display on a user interface of a client device.