Google Inc.

Chuan Jiang

Varouj Armen Chitilian

Dani Suleman

Lakshmi Kumar Dabbiru

Shreyas Doshi

Daniel Shaffer

Dan Shaffer

A system and machine-implemented method for displaying social presence information associated with content, the method including identifying content being provided for display, determining an entity associated with the content, determining one or more social presence scores for the content based on social activity at one or more pages belonging to the entity at one or more social networking services, the social presence score being determined based on one or more indications of the quantity or quality of the social activity, determining, based on at least one score of the one or more social presence scores, whether the content should be annotated with social presence information regarding the social activity and providing the content and social presence information for display if it is determined that the content should be annotated with social presence information.

Providing social presence information for content items

Methods and systems for providing content for display including receiving a first content item, receiving a second content item, automatically annotating the first content item and the second content item with an entity, comparing the entity annotation of the first content item and the entity annotation of the second content item, and, based on the comparison, displaying the annotated first content item with the second content item to a user.

Automatically annotating content items with an entity

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