Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Aaron C Yuen

Daniel Marantz

Parthasarathy Govindarajen

Priya Vaidyanathan

Mark Blelock Atherton

Arun Sacheti

Gaurang Prajapati

Darrin E Eide

Anjali Muralidhar

Bartosz L Rakowski

Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying a related content view within a search interface. That is, a search interface, such as a search application, may provide search results that are relevant to a query submitted through the search interface. For example, a main search engine results view comprising one or more search results of the query may be presented within the search interface. Responsive to a semantic zoom operation (e.g., a touch gesture), the search interface may be transitioned from the main search engine results view to a related content view comprising related content that corresponds to the query and/or a (e.g., supplemental) search result for the query. In this way, the user may explore supplemental content, such as query suggestions, images, entity descriptions/profiles, videos, and/or other content, that may be related to a query submitted by the user.

Semantic zoom for related content

A query processing system (QPS) for generating query suggestions to a user by matching the user's input query against a set of query-detection grammars defined by respective rule modules, and with respect to a structured knowledge base. In response to the matching operation, the QPS may generate a set of synthetic query suggestions to the user, representing refinements of the user's input query. The QPS can also present a refinement tool that conveys refinement options to the user. The QPS may also present one or more preview items to the user upon the user's selection of one of the synthetic query suggestions. Each synthetic query suggestion and each preview item is guaranteed to having a matching counterpart information item in the structured knowledge base.

User interface mechanisms for query refinement

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