Presenting Search Result Information

• US 20070266022A1
• Filed: 05/10/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Dave, Kushal, Chang, Bay-Wei, Rohrs, Christopher, Seth, Shashi, Gomes, Benedict A., Fontes, Paul, Frumkin, Michael, Shah, Avni, Dai, Xiangtian
• Granted Patent: US 9,256,676 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range

Abstract

A method of presenting computer-generated search result information can include receiving a search request from a client computer; identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; ranking the plurality of search results using content in one or more web notebooks; and providing the ranked plurality of search results for presentation in the client computer. Using the content can include determining whether at least one of a title, a heading, clipped content, metadata or a user-annotation in at least one web notebook relates to the search request and, if so, increasing a ranking of at least one search result referenced by the at least one web notebook.

Claims

1. A method of presenting computer-generated search result information, comprising:

receiving a search request from a client computer;

identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request;

ranking the plurality of search results using content in one or more web notebooks; and

providing the ranked plurality of search results for presentation in the client computer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein ranking comprises first ranking the plurality of search results without using the content, and thereafter modifying the ranked search results using the content.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein using the content comprises determining whether at least one of a title, a heading, clipped content, metadata or a user-annotation in at least one web notebook relates to the search request and, if so, increasing a ranking of at least one search result referenced by the at least one web notebook.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a first search result that is referenced in the one or more web notebooks, and identifying a second search result that is not referenced in the one or more web notebooks, wherein the ranking comprises ranking the first search result higher than the second search result.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein performing the ranking further comprises analyzing backlinks corresponding to the plurality of search results.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more web notebooks are selected for use in the ranking based on an identity of a user that initiates the search request.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the web notebooks have been ranked before the plurality of search results is received, and wherein the ranking of the web notebooks is taken into account in ranking the plurality of search results.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating, after identifying the plurality of search results, snippet information by identifying portions of documents associated with the search results that have been referenced in the web notebooks, the snippet information to be provided to the client computer with the search results.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the use of the content in performing the ranking is triggered by an instruction included in the search request.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one search result from the plurality of search results is selected from the group consisting of a map search result, a shopping search result and a book search result.

11. A method of presenting computer-generated search result information, comprising:

receiving a user input corresponding to a search request;

forwarding the search request to a server computer for identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; and

receiving the plurality of search results from the server computer, the plurality of search results being ranked using content in one or more web notebooks.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising including in the search request an instruction for the server computer to rank the plurality of search results using the content.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more web notebooks are selected for use in the ranking based on an identity of a user that provides the user input.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the ranked plurality of search results further includes snippet information that the server computer generates by identifying portions of documents associated with the search results that have been referenced in the one or more web notebooks.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying the ranked plurality of search results.

16. A method of presenting computer-generated search result information, comprising:

receiving a search request from a client computer;

identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; and

generating snippet information to be transmitted to the client computer with the search results by identifying portions of documents associated with at least one search result of the plurality of search results that have been referenced in one or more web notebooks.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the snippet information is generated by obtaining, for at least one search result included in the plurality of search results, a portion of content that is included in the one or more web notebooks.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising providing a link that, upon activation, provides access to the one or more web notebooks.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising displaying an indication of a number of the one or more web notebooks that reference the at least one search result.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the search request includes an instruction to identify the portions of the documents in generating the snippet information.

21. The method of claim 16, further comprising ranking the plurality of search results using content in the one or more web notebooks.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the content comprises at least one of a title, a heading, generated snippet information, metadata or a user-entered annotation.

23. The method of claim 16, further comprising forwarding the plurality of search results and the generated snippet information to a client computer from which the search request was received.

24. A method of presenting computer-generated search result information, comprising:

receiving a search request from a client computer;

identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; and

generating snippet information to be transmitted to the client computer with the search results by identifying portions of documents associated with at least one search result of the plurality of the search results that have been referenced in one or more web notebooks;

wherein the snippet information is generated by obtaining, for at least one search result included in the plurality of search results, a portion of content that is included in the one or more web notebooks, the content comprising at least one of a title, a heading, generated snippet information, metadata or a user-entered annotation.