Yahoo! Inc.

Irfan Presswala

Chris Theodore Kalaboukis

Marc Eliot Davis

Athellina Athsani

Christopher T Paretti

Rajat Mukherjee

Edward Stanley Ott, Iv

Chris W Higgins

Kalpana Ravinarayanan

Methods and system for managing demand for an object includes capturing information about the object through a mobile device associated with a user. The mobile device is configured to capture information about the object that include one or more of a spatial, temporal, topical and social attributes of the object. The identity of the object is verified and validated using this metadata captured by the user through the device from the real world object or its proxy. Upon successful verification and validation, the object and its metadata are automatically added to a wish list of the user. An aggregate list is generated using the attributes and metadata of the object from a plurality of users. The aggregate list defines a source of demand for the object. The object is tracked as it progresses through various phases of ownership cycle using dynamic demand calculations based on the information associated with the objects, the users and the aggregate lists.

Dynamic demand calculation using captured data of real life objects

Techniques and tools described herein provide mechanisms for displaying information that is contextually related to a search query. Using these techniques and tools, a user can lookup and discover a person or other entity from contextually related information. For example, if the user submits a search query on the title of a song (e.g., 'Janie's got a gun'), then, in addition to a variety of documents related to the title of the song, the user may be presented with information about a related entity such as 'Aerosmith' (e.g., the band that sings the song). In this way, the techniques and tools provide mechanisms that identify information that is not directly related to the search query, but that is information the user may find useful or interesting based on context of the search query.

Implicit name searching

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