PRESENTING PREDETERMINED SEARCH RESULTS WITH QUERY SUGGESTIONS

• US 20080109401A1
• Filed: 09/12/2006
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Yu, Yinzhe, Kumar, Girish, Sareen, Gaurav, Wang, Junhua
• Application Number:
  US11/531,119
• Publication Number:
  US 20080109401A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3322 using system suggestions G06F16/3325 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A system, method, computer-readable media, and related techniques are disclosed for presenting one or more search queries and at least one search result corresponding to at least one of the queries. In an embodiment, the method may include receiving a portion of a search query. In response to receiving at least a portion of the search query, the method may be configured to present to a user one or more suggested search queries and at least one predetermined search result corresponding to at least one of the one or more suggested queries. The method may further include presenting at least one advertisement corresponding to at least one or more suggested search queries.

Claims

1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-usable instructions stored thereon for performing a method for presenting one or more search queries and a search result corresponding to at least one of the queries, the method comprising:

receiving a portion of a search query; and

in response to receiving the portion of the search query, presenting to a user one or more suggested search queries and at least one predetermined search result corresponding to at least one of the one or more suggested queries.

2. The computer-readable media according to claim 1, wherein the one or more suggested search queries are autocomplete search queries.

3. The computer-readable media according to claim 1, wherein the at least one predetermined search result is stored in a cache.

4. The computer-readable media according to claim 1, further comprising receiving a selection of one of the at least one presented predetermined search result.

5. The computer-readable media according to claim 4, wherein the at least one presented predetermined search result includes a reference to a website associated with the at least one presented predetermined search result.

6. The computer-readable media according to claim 5, further comprising presenting the website when the selection has been received.

7. The computer-readable media according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more suggested search queries includes a reference to a website associated with a ranked predetermined search result.

8. The computer-readable media according to claim 1, wherein the one or more suggested search queries and the at least one predetermined search results are refreshed each time the portion is modified.

9. The computer-readable media according to claim 1, further comprising presenting at least one advertisement corresponding to at least one of the one or more suggested search queries.

10. The computer-readable media according to claim 9, wherein the at least one advertisement is presented with the at least one presented predetermined search result.

11. A system for presenting users with search queries and search results in response to receiving portions of search queries from users, the system comprising:

a suggestion repository configured to store suggested search queries;

a cache configured to store predetermined search results corresponding to suggested search queries stored in the suggestion repository; and

a query suggestion module configured to identify at least one suggested search query from the suggested search queries stored in the suggestion repository for display to the user along with at least one predetermined search result corresponding to the identified query.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the query suggestion module compares a portion of a search query inputted by a user to the suggested search queries stored in the suggestion repository in order to identify the at least one suggested search query.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the query suggestion module retrieves the at least one predetermined search result based on the identified at least one suggested search query.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the query suggestion module transmits the at least one predetermined search result for presentation within a user interface.

15. The system according to claim 11, further comprising an advertisement database for storing one or more advertisements associated with one or more search queries.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the query suggestion module retrieves the one or more advertisements based on the identified one or more suggested queries.

17. A graphical user interface embodied on one or more computer-readable media and executable on a computer for presenting on a display screen one or more search queries and one or more search results corresponding to at least one of the queries, the graphical user interface comprising:

a first screen area configured to display a portion of a search query inputted by a user;

a second screen area configured to display one or more suggested queries based on the portion of the search query displayed in the first screen area; and

a third screen area configured to display at least one predetermined search result corresponding to the one or more suggested queries displayed in the second screen area.

18. The graphical user interface according to claim 17, further comprising a fourth screen area configured to display one or more advertisements based on at least one of the portion of the search query and the one or more suggested queries.

19. The graphical user interface according to claim 18, wherein the second, third, and fourth screen areas are refreshed each time the portion of the search query is modified.

20. The graphical user interface according to claim 17, wherein the at least one predetermined search result includes a reference to a website associated with the at least one predetermined search result.