Google Inc.

John E Saalweachter

Kumar Mayur Thakur

Sheng Zhang

Bogdan Dorohonceanu

Jeremy Hylton

Yihua Wu

Othar Hansson

Sagar Kamdar

Jun Gong

Wanda Wen-hui Hung

Implementations include receiving trigger query data, the trigger query data identifying one or more trigger queries and one or more sets of authoritative users, each set of authoritative users being associated with a respective trigger query, providing a plurality of trigger query and authoritative user pairs, each trigger query and authoritative user pair identifying a trigger query and an authoritative user from a set of authoritative users associated with the trigger query, for each trigger query and authoritative user pair: generating a snippet based on user data, the user data being associated with the authoritative user in one or more computer-implemented services, each snippet being specific to the trigger query and specific to the authoritative user, and storing one or more snippets in computer-readable memory, each snippet being associated with the trigger query and the authoritative user for which the snippet was generated.

Generating snippets for prominent users for information retrieval queries

Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of receiving authoritative user data, the authoritative user data associating one or more queries with one or more authoritative users, processing the authoritative user data to identify one or more trigger queries, each trigger query including a query that, if received, triggers a display of one or more authoritative users in response, and storing the one or more trigger queries in a trigger queries database, each trigger query being associated with a first set of authoritative users, each authoritative user in the first set of authoritative users being associated with a first score relating to a particular trigger query.

Showing prominent users for information retrieval requests

Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of actions of receiving a search query from a searching user, determining that the search query corresponds to a trigger query and, in response, providing data associated with the first set of authoritative users for potential display to the searching user, determining a second set of authoritative users based on the first set of authoritative users, for each authoritative user in the second set of authoritative users, receiving a contact status between the authoritative user and the searching user within a social networking service, and transmitting instructions to display data associated with authoritative users of the second set of authoritative users with search results responsive to the search query, the data including the contact status for each authoritative user in the second set of authoritative users.

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John E Saalweachter