Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120101982 | Rich Results Relevant to User Search Queries for Books - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for triggering rich results in response to publication queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a publication query. One or more publication search results are obtained. A rich result is triggered based on a score of the first-ranked publication result if it meets a threshold relative to other publication search results. The rich result is populated with additional metadata about the publication obtained from web resources and product resources from multiple corpora. The rich result is provided with the publication search results. | 04-26-2012 |
20120290566 | DYNAMIC IMAGE DISPLAY AREA AND IMAGE DISPLAY WITHIN WEB SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing image search results with web corpus search results. In one aspect, a method includes determining dimensions of an image display environment in which image search results are to be displayed, determining an insertion score that defines an ordinal insertion position at which the image display environment is to be inserted into a ranking of general search results that defines ordinal positions for each of the general search results, the dimensions and the insertion score determined, in part, from the quality scores of the images, generating a search results resource for displaying the general search results according to their respective ordinal positions and the image display environment at the ordinal insertion position on a client device, and providing the search results resource in response to the search query. | 11-15-2012 |
20130006971 | Dynamic Image Display Area And Image Display Within Web Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing image search results with web corpus search results. In one aspect, a method includes determining dimensions of an image display environment in which image search results are to be displayed, determining an insertion score that defines an ordinal insertion position at which the image display environment is to be inserted into a ranking of general search results that defines ordinal positions for each of the general search results, the dimensions and the insertion score determined, in part, from the quality scores of the images, generating a search results resource for displaying the general search results according to their respective ordinal positions and the image display environment at the ordinal insertion position on a client device, and providing the search results resource in response to the search query. | 01-03-2013 |
20130156347 | Dynamic Image Display Area And Image Display Within Web Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing image search results with web corpus search results. In one aspect, a method includes determining dimensions of an image display environment in which image search results are to be displayed, determining an insertion score that defines an ordinal insertion position at which the image display environment is to be inserted into a ranking of general search results that defines ordinal positions for each of the general search results, the dimensions and the insertion score determined, in part, from the quality scores of the images, generating a search results resource for displaying the general search results according to their respective ordinal positions and the image display environment at the ordinal insertion position on a client device, and providing the search results resource in response to the search query. | 06-20-2013 |
20130232134 | Presenting Structured Book Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting book search results. A query is received requesting a search of text of a book resource. A presentation of search results that satisfy the query is generated, wherein each of the search results identifies a portion of the book resource, the presentation comprising one or more section headings each corresponding to a respective section of the book resource in which a portion identified by at least one search result occurs, and, search results associated with the corresponding section, each search result associated with a location within the corresponding section, each search result including a snippet of text from the book resource that includes one or more terms of the query, and wherein each search result includes a link to an image of a scanned page of the book in which the snippet of text occurs. | 09-05-2013 |
20140129554 | RICH RESULTS RELEVANT TO USER SEARCH QUERIES FOR BOOKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for triggering rich results in response to publication queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a publication query. One or more publication search results are obtained. A rich result is triggered based on a score of the first-ranked publication result if it meets a threshold relative to other publication search results. The rich result is populated with additional metadata about the publication obtained from web resources and product resources from multiple corpora. The rich result is provided with the publication search results. | 05-08-2014 |
20150143213 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANIMATING TRANSITIONS BETWEEN SEARCH RESULTS - The technology described relates to animated transitions between consecutive sets of search engine results. | 05-21-2015 |
20150161127 | RANKING ENTITY REALIZATIONS FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying and ranking entities for reference as search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data identifying resources that are relevant to a query. The data for each resource can include a relevance score, a list of references to entity realizations included in the resource, and for each reference to an entity realization in the list, one or more resource reference scores. For each resource and for each reference to an entity realization in the resource, a partial score for the reference can be determined from the resource reference scores for the reference and the relevance score for the resource. For each reference to an entity realization, a reference score for the reference is determined from each of the partial scores for the reference. Search results can be ranked based on the reference scores. | 06-11-2015 |
20150161205 | IDENTIFYING AN IMAGE FOR AN ENTITY - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying an image for an entity. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of resources. Each resource can include at least one image and reference at least one entity. Each image is assigned to a particular entity based on an overall entity scores for the image relative to the entities. The overall entity score for an image and an entity can specify a measure of topical relatedness between the image and the entity. For each individual entity referenced by at least one of the resources, a group of images that have been assigned to the individual entity is identified. An image evocative of each individual entity is selected from the group based on image rank scores. The image rank score for an image can be determined based on visual characteristics of the image. | 06-11-2015 |