Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing ranked search results responsive to a query. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device, a query specifying an entity, determining two or more resources each of which provide media content related to the entity, for each of the resources, determining an effectiveness measure that is a measure of the effectiveness of the resource to present, to a user of the user device, the media content related to the entity, ranking the resources using, at least in part, the respective effectiveness measure, and providing, to the user device, a presentation of search results for the ranked resources.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search input including one or more search terms; determining whether the search input includes a particular token; in response to determining that the search input includes the particular token, determining whether the one or more search terms are associated with a particular social page; in response to determining that the one or more search terms are associated with the particular social page, providing the particular social page without providing search results.
Abstract:
This disclosure presents a system, methods, and software for using elements of social network objects associated with a user to prompt the user to engage in other activities on a social networking site. A system receives a plurality of social network content items associated with a user. The system stores the plurality of social network content items using one or more data stores. The system analyzes the plurality of social network content items associated with the user to determine an element of the plurality of social network content items for use in creating a personalized input prompt to encourage the user to interact with a social network. The system generates one or more personalized descriptors based on the element of the plurality of social network content items. The system transmits the one or more personalized descriptors to a client device for presentation by a client application.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query from a searching user, defining a set of users based on the query, the set of users being a sub-set of a super-set of users and including one or more users that have submitted queries that are determined to correspond to the search query, providing an electronic document comprising instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to display a search results page including search results responsive to the search query and a connection interface, the connection interface displaying at least one indication of users of the set of users, and transmitting the electronic document to a computing device associated with the searching user.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing ranked search results responsive to a query. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device, a query specifying an entity, determining two or more resources each of which provide media content related to the entity, for each of the resources, determining an effectiveness measure that is a measure of the effectiveness of the resource to present, to a user of the user device, the media content related to the entity, ranking the resources using, at least in part, the respective effectiveness measure, and providing, to the user device, a presentation of search results for the ranked resources.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query, where the search query comprises one or more terms including an individual identifier; identifying one or more entities associated with the individual identifier; providing the one or more entities as query suggestions; receiving a selection of an entity; obtaining search results for the selected entity, where the search results are obtained using clustered resources corresponding to the selected entity; and providing the obtained search results, where the search results are presented in a social profile page corresponding to the selected entity.