Presenting search result information

• US 9,256,676 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2007
• Issued: 02/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Frumkin, Michael, Gomes, Benedict A., Rohrs, Christopher, Seth, Shashi, Shah, Avni, Chang, Bay-Wei, Dai, Xiangtian, Dave, Kushal, Fontes, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Chbouki, Tarek
• Application Number:
  US11/746,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20070266022A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,197 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 first user;

obtaining a plurality of search results, wherein each search result identifies a respective search result document responsive to the search request;

determining an initial ranking of the plurality of search results;

determining that one or more particular web notebooks each have a respective title that matches the search request and that a particular search result document corresponding to a particular search result has document content related to respective notebook content in the one or more particular web notebooks of a plurality of web notebooks, wherein each web notebook has an author, the first user is not the author of any of the one or more particular web notebooks, and the related notebook content in each of the plurality of web notebooks includes web clippings taken by the author of the respective web notebook, wherein each of the web clippings is a snippet or a portion of a web document added to the respective web notebook by the author of the respective web notebook;

modifying the ranking of the plurality of search results including modifying the ranking of the particular search result based on a web notebook based ranker and using the content from the one or more particular web notebooks; and

providing a response to the search request including the plurality of search results for presentation in an order based on the modified ranking.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the particular search result document has document content related to respective notebook content in one or more particular web notebooks comprises:

determining that at least one of a title, a heading, clipped content, metadata or a user-annotation in the one or more particular web notebooks relates to the particular search result document.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a first search result that is referenced in the plurality of web notebooks, and identifying a second search result that is not referenced in the plurality of web notebooks, wherein modifying the ranking of the plurality of search results comprises ranking the first search result higher than the second search result.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of web notebooks are selected for use in modifying the ranking of the plurality of search results based on an identity of the first user.

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

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating snippet information by identifying portions of search result documents that have been referenced in the plurality of web notebooks, and providing the snippet information with the search results.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an instruction to rank the plurality of search results using the content in the plurality of web notebooks.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the content stored in the web notebook does not change when the respective document from which it was copied changes.

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

receiving a search request from a first user;

obtaining a plurality of search results, wherein each search result identifies a respective search result document responsive to the search request;

generating snippet information for a particular search result of the plurality of search results, wherein generating the snippet information comprises;

determining that one or more particular web notebooks each have a respective title that matches the search request and that one or more web clippings included in the one or more particular web notebooks relate to a portion of a particular search result document corresponding to the particular search result, wherein the one or more web clippings are portions of web documents added to the one or more particular web notebooks by respective authors and the first user is not one of the respective authors; and

generating the snippet information for the particular search result from the one or more web clippings included in the one or more particular web notebooks; and

providing, in a response to the search request and for display to the first user, the particular search result with the snippet information generated from the one or more web clippings.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising providing, in the response to the search request and for display to the first user, a link to the one or more particular web notebooks that have notebook content related to document content of the particular search result document.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising providing, in the response to the search request and for display to the first user, an indication of how many of the one or more web notebooks that are related to the particular search result.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising ranking the plurality of search results using notebook content in the one or more particular web notebooks.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein determining that one or more web clippings relate to a portion of the particular search result document comprises:

determining that at least one of a title, a heading, metadata or a user-entered annotation in the one or more web clippings relate to the particular search result document.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein generating the snippet information for the particular search result from the one or more web clippings comprises:

identifying snippet information from information in the one or more particular web notebooks, wherein the information includes words, phrases, images, or maps from the one or more web clippings.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein providing, in the response to the search request and for display to the first user, the particular search result with the snippet information generated from the one or more web clippings comprises:

determining snippet text by matching search query text received with the search request and text included in the snippet information; and

providing the snippet information including the snippet text with the particular search result that corresponds to the particular search result document, wherein the snippet text is highlighted.