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Liwei Chen

Sanaz Ahari

Hugh Evan Williams

Nitin Agrawal

Tabreez Govani

Michael Maxwell Cameron

Yang Yang Zhang

Jamie Paul Buckley

Srinath Reddy Aaleti

Sean O Lyndersay

Michael J Patten

Max Glenn Morris

Gaurav S Anand

Peter Bailey

David Joel Sheldon

Sandy Wong

Daniel Oliver

Shajib Sadhukha

Nipoon Malhotra

Robert Emmett Kolba, Jr

Ritika Kapadia

Jun Yin

Richa Prasad

Kun Cong

Benjamin David Langmaid Stewart

Melitta Lorraine Geistdoerfer Andersen Riley

Meng Lu

Robert Emmett Kolba

A search service executes on one or more computing systems and searches at least one index associated with content accessible through an application based on the at least one portion of the search query to provide search results associated with the application. A search results interface returns one or more search results from the search. At least one of the search results is associated with an application identifier identifying the application. The search service ranks the search results associated with the application with other search results from at least one other search of other content based on the search query.

Search result contexts for application launch

A service maintains information regarding one or more aspects of Web content, such as Web pages, that can be accessed by a computing device. The same service or a different service (e.g., a digital assistant) also maintains information regarding the user of the computing device. When a user navigates to Web content using a Web application, such as a Web browser, the services are accessed to obtain information regarding the Web content navigated to, information regarding the user, and/or user selectable tasks or actions. The Web application displays the obtained information to the user along with the Web content. The Web application displays the obtained information without altering the obtained Web content. Optionally, the Web application displays an indication that additional information regarding the Web content is available, and displays the obtained information (e.g., automatically or in response to receiving a user input request to display that additional information).

Web application retrieval and display of web content based information with web content

Methods, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying and presenting rich related sites for task-oriented search queries. Upon receipt of a search query input by a user, one or more query logs are analyzed to determine if the search query is a related to a task being performed by the user. If the query is determined to be a task-oriented search query, search results are identified, as is one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) related to a particular search result. The related URL is presented to the user in association with the particular search result. Additional controls, e.g., search tools that facilitate querying of those URLs determined to be relevant to a particular search result, may also be provided to aid the user in performing the task at hand.

Related URLs for task-oriented query results

Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices facilitate providing a comparison experience to a user in response to a search query. Upon receiving a search query from the user, entities are extracted from the query. The entities are associated with entity classes. The entities, entity classes, previous user behavior, and other information are used to infer whether the user likely is engaging in a comparison task. If the inference indicates that the user likely is engaging in a comparison task, a comparison experience is generated and access to the comparison experience is provided to the user.

Providing comparison experiences in response to search queries

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