Google Inc.

Malte Nuhn

Gokhan Hasan Bakir

Kavin Karthik Ilangovan

Marcin Bortnik

Quoc V Le

Matthias Heiler

Daniel Duckworth

Javier Spagnolo Arrizabalaga

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for analyzing images for generating query responses. One of the methods includes determining, using a textual query, an image category for images responsive to the textual query, and an output type that identifies a type of requested content; selecting, using data that associates a plurality of images with a corresponding category, a subset of the images that each belong to the image category, each image in the plurality of images belonging to one of the two or more categories; analyzing, using the textual query, data for the images in the subset of the images to determine images responsive to the textual query; determining a response to the textual query using the images responsive to the textual query; and providing, using the output type, the response to the textual query for presentation.

Image query analysis

Image analysis for results of textual image queries

Methods, systems, and apparatus including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for augmenting search engine index that indexes resources from a collection of resources. In one aspect, a method of augmenting a first search engine index that indexes resources from a first collection of resources includes the actions of identifying a first resource, in the first collection of resources, that is indexed in the first search engine index for which a value of a search engine ranking signal is not available, wherein a search engine uses values of the search engine ranking signal in ranking resources in response to received search queries; processing text from the first resource using a machine learning model, the machine learning model being configured to: process the text to predict a value of the search engine ranking signal for the first resource; and updating the first search engine index by associating the predicted value of the search engine ranking signal with the first resource in the first search engine index.

Predicting a search engine ranking signal value

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Malte Nuhn