Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Letian Feng

Wenjie Liu

Hui Yang

Jianxin Yang

A method and an apparatus for searching for a point of information (POI). According to the method, a client performs, based on a first search text entered by a user and first user data stored in the client, address extension on the first search text, to obtain a second search text that includes the first search text and includes first address information obtained based on the first user data. Because the first address information in the second search text is closely related to personal information of the user, it is highly probable that an address indicated by the first address information represents an address of a POI that the user expects to find. Therefore, it is highly probable that POI search results fed back by a server based on the second search text include a search result of the POI that the user is interested in or expects.

Method and apparatus for searching for point of information

A word completion method and apparatus are described. The method is applied to a search scenario and is used to complete an incomplete word entered by a user. The method is based on an improved trie. Hot words are stored in some nodes of the trie. In the word completion method, a target node that matches a character string is searched in the trie, and at least one completed word is output to a user based on a hot word stored in the target node. Word completion efficiency is improved, and a case in which a word is recommended to a user when the user enters an excessively short character string is avoided.

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