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PROVIDING OBJECTIVE AND PEOPLE RESULTS FOR SEARCH

  • US 20130036114A1
  • Filed: 08/05/2011
  • Published: 02/07/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. One or more computer-readable storage memories that store executable instructions to provide search results, the executable instructions, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform acts comprising:

  • receiving a query from a user;

    determining that the query is answerable with subjective or socially-derived information;

    comparing said query to a corpus of information to obtain objective results;

    comparing said query to a social graph to identify one or more people whose relationship to said user meets a closeness condition and who have an aspect of relevance to said query;

    creating person results that comprise said one or more people and, for each of said one or more people, an explanation of each person'"'"'s relevance to said query; and

    providing, to said user, a set of results that comprise said objective results and said person results.

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