Yellowpages.com LLC

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Yp LLC

Coby P Randquist

Justin Marcucci

An information request is received from a user of a social network. Data for other users in the social network is searched in order to provide an answer to the request. A question based on the information request is sent to one or more of the other users having prior activity on the social network that is related to the information request.

Searching data in a social network to provide an answer to an information request

A question is received on a first social network site from a first user. The question is sent to a second user of a second social network site who receives the question from the second social network site. The first social network site receives an answer to the question from the second user via the second social network site and provides the answer to the first user.

Providing an answer to a question from a social network site using a separate messaging site

A tag is received from a member of a social network site. The tag is associated with a favorite of the member. Tag data obtained from the tag is provided to a second site that hosts a searching service. The second site determines the relevancy of the tag data relative to a new search request received by a user on the second site.

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Coby P Randquist