Google Inc.

Eric Steinlauf

Steven D Baker

Jessica Nicola Staddon

Jeffrey Korn

Matthew K Gray

Richard D Borovoy

Namrata U Godbole

Evan Mallory Gilbert

Zachary Paul Maier

Lena Elizabeth Cardell

Grant Dasher

Hongyi Li

Dhyanesh Damania

Julie Heather Farago

Aleksandra Korolova

Samer Hassan Hassan

Ionut Georgescu

Methods and systems for providing an image with an answer to a question query. A method receiving a first query that is determined to be a question query; generating a second query form the first query; causing a search of a plurality of resources of a first corpus using the second query as input, wherein the first corpus of resources are resources that include images and textual data rendered with the images; receiving data indicating a set of resources determined to be responsive to the second query; causing a search for images in the set of resources; selecting, from the set of images and based in part on the search for images in the first set of resources, an image to be provided with the answer in response to the query; and providing, by the data processing apparatus, and with the answer, the image in response to the first query.

Images for query answers

The disclosure includes a system and method for calculating social ranking scores for websites. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: process user interaction data describing user social activities associated with a website; classify the user social activities based on a plurality of social activity types associated with the user social activities, the plurality of social activity types including one or more characteristics describing the user social activities; determine candidate user social activities based on the classified user social activities, the candidate user social activities configured to calculate a social ranking score for the website; and calculate the social ranking score for the website based on the candidate user social activities, the social ranking score indicating a social ranking for the website.

Social ranking metric

Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing image content items. In one aspect, a method includes generating an image display environment for a first image content item on an image content item page resource between a first row and a second row of image content items. The user device expands a thumbnail of the image content item from first dimensions to second dimensions, and displays the expanded thumbnail in the image display environment. Concurrently with the thumbnail processing, the user device requests a first image resource referenced by the first image content item, and, upon receipt of the first image resource, generates an adjusted version of the first image resource that meets the second dimensions. The user device then displays the adjusted version of the first image resource in the image display environment in place of the expanded version of the first image content item.

Image display environment

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Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Eric Steinlauf