Google Inc.

Charles Chapin

Xinyu Tang

Vibhor Nanavati

Michele Mae Covell

Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen

Shalini Agarwal

Tao Huang

Xuefu Wang

Andrew R Golding

Tiruvilwamalai Venkatraman Raman

Gokul Varadhan

Bhavesh R Mehta

A system and method is provided that infers a user's intent when the user searches for a particular address or other geographic location. In that regard, the system and method may select advertisements in response to a user searching for street addresses. The advertisements may be selected by searching for advertisements that match search terms associated with the street address. If no search terms are associated with the street address, the system and method may determine whether the street address is associated with a point of interest. If the address is associated with a point of interest, the name of the point of interest may be utilized as the search term.

System and method of providing information based on street address

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for providing content. The method comprises receiving a request for content from a user, the request for content being associated with a location and including one or more keywords. The method further comprises determining a prominent entity in proximity to the location and one or more categories associated with the prominent entity. The method further comprises evaluating historical search queries received from the user to determine one or more interests of the user. The method further comprises determining one or more additional keywords based on the evaluating. The method further comprises determining one or more content items based at least in part on the one or more keywords, the categories and the one or more additional keywords. The method further comprises providing the one or more content items responsive to the request.

Interest-based keywords for prominent entity and by location

Systems and methods for providing a search result are provided. In some aspects, a method includes receiving a query. The method also includes providing a first set of search results responsive to the query. The method also includes receiving a selected search result in the first set of search results. The method also includes determining a time specification based on the selected search result. The method also includes providing a second set of search results responsive to the query and the time specification.

Providing a search result based on an input including a time specification

Methods and systems for providing a graphic, such as an advertisement, in a 3D geographical information system (GIS) view are described. A method for providing a graphic in a 3D GIS view may include obtaining a graphic and determining a 3D geographical space in the GIS view based on a geographical reference in the GIS view. The method may also include rendering and displaying a curvilinear representation of the graphic in the geographical space. The method may further include adjusting the curvilinear representation of the graphic according to an updated viewpoint of the GIS view. The curvilinear representation may be oriented directly towards the updated viewpoint. A system for providing a graphic in a 3D GIS view may include a geographical space manager, a graphic representation generator and a display module.

Showing geo-located information in a 3D geographical space

Digital mapping techniques are disclosed that provide visually-oriented information to the user, such as driving directions that include visual data points along the way of the driving route, thereby improving the user experience. The user may preview the route associated with the driving directions, where the preview is based on, for example, at least one of satellite images, storefront images, and heuristics and/or business listings. The visually-oriented information can be presented to the user in a textual, graphical, or verbal format, or some combination thereof.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Charles Chapin