Personalized search widgets for customized user interface

A system comprising:

• a data storage associated with a publication system to store a plurality of listings in a memory;
• a data access module to receive a search term from a device associated with a user;
• a history module to;
• determine a set of related search terms related to the received search term;
• and
• determine, for each related search term of the set of related search terms, a status of the related search term as desirable or undesirable, based on searches previously submitted by the user;
• the data access module further to provide data associated with the set of related search terms to the device, the data associated with the set of related search terms being used by the device to display a related searches menu depicting the set of related search terms according to the status of each related search term as desirable or undesirable;
• and
• a widget module to:
• provide a query builder, the query builder to allow a user to modify the desirable or undesirable status of each displayed related search term and to provide a final search phrase based on a subset of the set of related search terms having the desirable status;
• modify a font color of text of a first related search term in the related searches menu to a first color based on the first related search term being a refinement of the received search term;
• and
• modify a font color of text of a second related search term in the related searches menu to a second color based on the second related search term being an alternative of the received search term.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon, the instructions executable by a process for performing operations comprising:

• receiving a search term from a device associated with a user;
• determining a set of search terms related to the received search term;
• determining, for each related search term of the set of search terms, a status of the related search term as desirable or undesirable, based on searches previously submitted by the user;
• providing data associated with the set of related search terms to the device, the data associated with the related search terms being used by the device to display a related searches menu depicting the set of related search terms according to the status of each related search term of the set of related search terms as desirable or undesirable;
• modifying a font color of text of a first displayed related search term to a first color based on the first related search term being a refinement of the search term;
• modifying a font color of text of a second displayed related search term to a second color based on the second related search term being an alternative of the search term;
• and
• providing a query builder, the query builder to allow a user to modify the desirable or undesirable status of each related search term of the set of related search terms and to provide a final search phrase based on a subset of the set of related search terms having the desirable status.