Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Social search engine
- Patent Title (中): 社交搜索引擎
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Application No.: US13092024Application Date: 2011-04-21
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Publication No.: US09098808B1Publication Date: 2015-08-04
- Inventor: Max Ventilla , Robert J. Spiro , Damon Horowitz , Sepandar D. Kamvar , William C. MacCartney , Winton Henry Ellis Davies , Michael Kim
- Applicant: Max Ventilla , Robert J. Spiro , Damon Horowitz , Sepandar D. Kamvar , William C. MacCartney , Winton Henry Ellis Davies , Michael Kim
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00 ; G06N5/02 ; G06N5/04 ; G06N99/00

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs, for a social search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an answer to a question from an answerer; identifying an entity in the answer, in which the entity refers to a product, a service, a company, or a merchant; obtaining permission from the answerer to provide an interactive link for the entity in the answer to a resource from which the entity can be obtained; receiving a user submitted query and determining that the query is related to the entity; and responsive to determining, providing the answer, including the link to the resource, as part of search results that are responsive to the query.
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