Google Inc.

Artiom Myaskouvskey

Lev Finkelstein

Tomer Shmiel

Alexandru Marius Pasca

Eran Ofek

Isaac Elias

Shaul Markovitch

Methods and apparatus related to processing of at least one descriptive term of a query to obtain at least one query suggestion for a query. A descriptive term may be identified in a partial search query. A modified partial query suggestion request for the partial search query may be transmitted that omits the descriptive term. At least one query suggestion result for the modified partial query suggestion request may be received and the descriptive term reinserted into the query suggestion result.

Creating query suggestions based on processing of descriptive term in a partial query

The present invention relates to the identification of alternative suggestions which potentially improve on a given query suggestion, without being perceived by a user as being offensively different from the user's query. The alternative suggestions may for example be different query formulations that relate to the same topic as that of the given query suggestion. The technology disclosed uses similarity screening of the given query suggestion against unique queries which do not include the given query suggestion as a prefix, in conjunction with query utility scores representing prior user response to the unique queries.

Modifying a user query to improve the results

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Haifa, Israel

Artiom Myaskouvskey