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David Lloyd Jones

Tarun Kumar Jain

Tim Phillip Wantland

Shivakumar Venkataraman

Srdjan Petrovic

William Sands Robinson

Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson

Alan Wayne Blount

Donald Allen Barnett

Brandon Charles Barbello

Kyle Pedersen

A system for providing advertisements with search results in response to a search query comprises a front end and an advertisement server. The front end is configured: to receive a search query; to send a first search request to a search server and sending a first advertisement request to an advertisement server, wherein the first search request includes the search query or information based on the search query, and wherein the first advertisement request includes the search query or information based on the search query and an indication that an advertisement response is not to be provided; to receive search results from the search server; and to send at least some of the search results to the advertisement server in a second advertisement request, wherein the second advertisement request includes an indication that an advertisement response is to be provided. The advertisement server is configured: in response to receiving the first advertisement request, to search for advertisements related to the search query to produce plural advertisement results each with an associated score; in response to receiving the second advertisement request, to modify the score of at least one of the plural advertisement results; to rank the plural advertisement results according to their scores; to select one or more of the highest ranked plural advertisement results; and to send an advertisement response to the front end, the advertisement response including the selected one or more highest ranked plural advertisement results. The front end is configured to provide the search results with the selected one or more highest ranked plural advertisement results.

Handling search queries

Provided are methods, systems, and devices for generating semantic objects and an output based on the detection or recognition of the state of an environment that includes objects. State data, based in part on sensor output, can be received from one or more sensors that detect a state of an environment including objects. Based in part on the state data, semantic objects are generated. The semantic objects can correspond to the objects and include a set of attributes. Based in part on the set of attributes of the semantic objects, one or more operating modes, associated with the semantic objects can be determined. Based in part on the one or more operating modes, object outputs associated with the semantic objects can be generated. The object outputs can include one or more visual indications or one or more audio indications.

Sensor based semantic object generation

Systems are provided to facilitate continuous detection of words, names, phrases, or other sounds of interest and, responsive to such detection, provide a related user experience. The user experience can include providing links to media, web searches, translation services, journaling applications, or other resources based on detected ambient speech or other sounds. To preserve the privacy of those using and/or proximate to such systems, the system refrains from transmitting any information related to the detected sound unless the system receives permission from a user. Such permission can include the user interacting with a provided web search link, media link, or other user interface element.

Trigger sound detection in ambient audio to provide related functionality on a user interface

Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for selecting content. A method includes: receiving an initial request for content that is to be presented along with search results responsive to a search request; identifying one or more eligible content items from the candidate content items that satisfy the initial request; receiving information describing the search results; re-processing the initial request using the information including one or more of adding other eligible content items, removing one or more previously eligible content items, adjusting a quality score or a bid associated with one or more eligible content items, or re-ranking the eligible content items; conducting an auction based on ranked eligible content items; and selecting one or more content items from among the eligible content items based on the results of the auction and transmitting the selected one or more content items.

Adjusting content selection based on search results

A counting game comprising a playing board for each player, marker chips, first and second dice, and a counting rack including a horizontal bar with slidable elements thereon for each player. The playing boards each have a sequentially numbered array of playing spaces and a finish space. The players in turn throw the first die, place the thus indicated number of chips in sequentially numbered spaces on their respective boards and cumulatively record the number of placed chips on their respective counting racks by sliding the elements from one end of the bar to the other. The second die is thrown when all of the elements on a respective rack have been slid from one end of the bar to the other. The second die in turn directs that a selected number of chips be added to or subtracted from a player's board. The game ends when one player succeeds in placing chips in all of the sequentially numbered spaces and finish space without having any of the slidable elements moved from the one end of his counting rack.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

David Lloyd Jones