Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jason A Bolla

Maxim V Stepin

Sanaz Ahari

Nitin Agrawal

Bo-June Hsu

Robert A Williams

Farid Hosseini

Srinath Reddy Aaleti

Andrew Peter Oakley

Christopher A Meyers

Nikolay A Glushnev

Richard J Gruenhagen

The present invention is directed to presenting a suggested search query. Responsive to receiving a user-devised search parameter, a suggested search query is identified. The user-devised search parameter might have been previously received by a search system, or alternatively, might be a unique query that has not been previously received. A suggested search query might be generated using various techniques, such as by applying an n-gram language model. A classification of the suggested search query is determined, and the suggested search query is presented together with a visual indicator, which signifies the classification.

Generating and presenting a suggested search query

Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate providing suggested sites in accordance with target sites are provided. Web-browsed data is locally stored on a user device and uploaded to a suggestion engine. Additional web-browsed data is communicated to the suggestion engine via a suggested site request that provides a request for suggested sites related to a target site. In embodiments, the web-browsed data contained in the suggested site request includes data not previously uploaded to the suggestion engine. The suggestion engine utilizes the web-browsed data uploaded to the suggestion engine and the web-browsed data communicated via the suggested site request to provide suggested sites in association with the target site.

Providing suggested sites associated with target sites

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Jason A Bolla