Google Inc.

Kavi J Goel

Pravir Kumar Gupta

Jack Wright Menzel

Christina R Dhanaraj

Peter Jin Hong

Shashidhar Anil Thakur

Omer Bar-or

Jared L Levy

Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar

Nathaniel J Gaylinn

Bryan Christopher Horling

Paul Haahr

Philip Andrew McDonnell

Owen Daniel Otto

Michael Y Brukman

Emily Kay Moxley

Jeromy William Henry

John R Provine

Tal Cohen

Ziv Bar-Yossef

Tomer Kol

Adi Mano

Gideon Wald

Igor Tsvetkov

Oren Naim

Nitsan Oz

Grace Chung

Eyal Carmi

Slaven Bilac

Benson Tsai

Satoru Stephen Yamauchi

Ariel H Bardin

Yang-Hua Chu

Toshiaki Fujiki

Hidetoshi Shimokawa

Thomas R Stanis

Toshihiro Yoshino

Mingmin Xie

Susanne Brokaw

Tomohiko Kimura

A device may be configured to receive a query; receive information regarding documents that are relevant to the query; identify one or more entities associated with the documents; determine a category for the query based on: the query, a topic of the documents, and the one or more entities; determine, based on the query and the category, that an entity list should be presented in response to the query; and present a search result document based on determining that the entity list should be presented in response to the query. The search result document may include a list with information identifying the one or more entities.

Generating ranked lists of entities

A display of a computing device is updated to present an electronic user interface that provides a keyword entry control. Through the keyword entry control, keywords are received that are associated with an advertisement. Computer processors are used to determine whether keywords are overbroad in accordance with a ratio of a number of times that the keywords have been used in search queries provided by users to a click-through rate of other advertisements presented to the users responsive to the search queries. Low-performing keywords are identified from the overbroad keywords. At the display of the computing device, the electronic user interface is updated to present a visualization of a list of the low-performing keywords, and to provide a set of interactive controls. The set of one or more interactive controls includes a given control that removes a corresponding low-performing keyword from being associated with the advertisement.

Keyword helper

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for establishing preferences for sites that are explicitly identified by a user by either a textual input or an acceptance in response to a recommendation, and adjusting the presentation of search results based on these preferences.

Preferred sites

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing knowledge panels. In one aspect, a method includes determining an entity that is referenced by a received search query. Content items relevant to the entity are identified. A set of knowledge modules is selected for presentation in a knowledge panel for the entity. The knowledge panel can be a portion of a search results page in which knowledge modules are presented. Data that causes the knowledge modules to be presented in the knowledge panel is provided to a user device.

Knowledge panel

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for presenting secondary music search result links. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search query. A plurality of search results that satisfy the search query are obtained. A presentation of the plurality of search results is generated, wherein a particular search result includes one or more secondary music search result links to respective music resources identified by markup language music data in a set of identified music web pages. The presentation of search results is provided in response to the search query.

Presenting secondary music search result links

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a first search query from a user device; receiving search results for the first search query provided by a search engine, wherein each of the search results identifies a respective resource; determining from the search results that the first search query relates to a first entity of a first entity type; determining that one or more entities of a second entity type have a predetermined relationship with the first entity; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second type to the user device as part of a response to the first search query.

Related entities

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing search results. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a plurality of registered publishers for enriched search results and, for each registered publisher, obtaining enrichment information from the registered publisher and associating the enrichment information with a resource provided by the publisher. A query is received. A plurality of responsive resources that are responsive to the query are identified. A first responsive resource is determined to be associated with enrichment information. An enriched search result is provided, the enriched search result identifying the first responsive resource and including the first responsive resource's associated enrichment information.

Enriching search results

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for ranking events. One of the methods includes receiving data identifying a physical location; obtaining data identifying a plurality of events occurring in the physical location during a particular time period; computing a respective plurality of signal scores for each of the events, wherein computing the respective plurality of signal scores for each of the events comprises computing a first signal score for each of the events based at least in part on a count of Internet sites that include at least one mention of the event; computing a respective popularity score for each of the plurality of events by combining the respective plurality of signal scores for the event; and generating a ranking of events occurring in the physical location during the particular time period based at least in part on the popularity scores.

Ranking events

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Kavi J Goel