Implicit name searching
First Claim
1. A method for displaying information to a user comprising:
- receiving a search query at a search engine, wherein said search query includes a set of search terms;
generating, by the search engine, a set of search results based on the search terms in the search query;
extracting a set of keywords from at least a portion of the set of search results;
heuristically identifying at least one of said keywords from the set of keywords as a name entity, wherein said name entity is not a term in said set of search terms;
determining name entity information to be presented to a user;
wherein determining name entity information includes obtaining information related to said name entity from a source other than the search results;
constructing at the search engine a search results page that includes both a listing of said set of search results and said name entity information; and
sending the search results page to a user as a response to the search query,wherein heuristically identifying at least one of said keywords from the set of keywords includes determining if the at least one of said keywords appears in at least a threshold percentage of search results,wherein the method steps are performed by one or more computing devices.
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Abstract
Techniques and tools described herein provide mechanisms for displaying information that is contextually related to a search query. Using these techniques and tools, a user can lookup and discover a person or other entity from contextually related information. For example, if the user submits a search query on the title of a song (e.g., “Janie'"'"'s got a gun”), then, in addition to a variety of documents related to the title of the song, the user may be presented with information about a related entity such as “Aerosmith” (e.g., the band that sings the song). In this way, the techniques and tools provide mechanisms that identify information that is not directly related to the search query, but that is information the user may find useful or interesting based on context of the search query.
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1. A method for displaying information to a user comprising:
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receiving a search query at a search engine, wherein said search query includes a set of search terms; generating, by the search engine, a set of search results based on the search terms in the search query; extracting a set of keywords from at least a portion of the set of search results; heuristically identifying at least one of said keywords from the set of keywords as a name entity, wherein said name entity is not a term in said set of search terms; determining name entity information to be presented to a user; wherein determining name entity information includes obtaining information related to said name entity from a source other than the search results; constructing at the search engine a search results page that includes both a listing of said set of search results and said name entity information; and sending the search results page to a user as a response to the search query, wherein heuristically identifying at least one of said keywords from the set of keywords includes determining if the at least one of said keywords appears in at least a threshold percentage of search results, wherein the method steps are performed by one or more computing devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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