Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

James Brian Lawson

Brian W MacDonald

Nitin Agrawal

Daniel Marantz

Parthasarathy Govindarajen

Xin Liu

Nipoon Malhotra

James Francis Gilsinan, Iv

Aaron Chun Win Yuen

Kimberly M Vlcek

Mairéad Áine O'Donovan

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing query-completion suggestions configured to be searched against vertical information domains in response to receiving a general web search query are provided. At least a portion of a general web search query is received. As the portion of the general web search query is received, query-completion suggestions are determined as is a likely primary intent associated with at least a portion of the determined query-completion suggestions. If the likely primary intent associated with a particular query-completion suggestion is for information associated with a particular vertical information domain other than the general web domain, the query-completion suggestion is provided such that selection thereof causes searching of the query-completion suggestion against the particular information domain for search results.

Domain specific query-completion suggestions

Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media are provided for building long queries utilizing query suggestions and query suggestion entities. Upon receiving at least a portion of a search query, a query suggestion is provided. Upon receiving a selection of the query suggestion, the search query is updated. Prior to executing the updated search query, a user is permitted to edit the updated search query. Query suggestions may be presented in association with query suggestion entity representations. A query suggestion entity is a separate and distinct entity that may initiate performance of an action upon selection. A query suggestion entity representation may comprise various features and information associated with the search query.

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