Yahoo! Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

James Michael Reinhold

Hal R Schectman

David Mark Ciemiewicz

Apostolos Karmirantzos

Jackie Andrew Freeman

Tony Sang-min Lee

David Simpson

Gregory M Makris

David D Ahn

Valerie Nygaard

Tracy Holloway King

Andrea Ryerson Burbank

Riccardo Turchetto

Joanna Mun Yee Chan

Timothy McDonnell Converse

Christian Biemann

Feng Pan

Christopher Thun

Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate generation of snippets. In embodiments, text features within a keyword-sentence window are identified. The text features are utilized to determine break features that indicate favorability of breaking at a particular location of the keyword-sentence window. The break features are used to recognize features of partial snippets such that a snippet score to indicate the strength of the partial snippet can be calculated. Snippet scores associated with partial snippets are compared to select an optimal snippet, that is, the snippet having the highest snippet score.

Generating snippets based on content features

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set for a query comprises generating a primary result set and a secondary result set, the primary result set and secondary result set generated according to one or more respective disparate search algorithms. A difference result set is determined according to a difference between items in the primary result set and second result set, which is displayed to a user.

Difference control for generating and displaying a difference result set from the result sets of a plurality of search engines

Indication of exclusive items in a result set

Presentation of differences between multiple searches

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Berkeley, CA, United States of America

James Michael Reinhold