Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rodney Coleman Edwards

Brian W MacDonald

Krista L Johnson

Masuma Walji

Darwin Kengo Yamamoto

Steven William Macbeth

Daniel Marantz

Paul Ronald Ray

Daniel J Makoski

Steven Tullis

Ethan Nelson Ray

Sanaz Ahari

Melora Zaner-Godsey

Christina Marie Koehn

Tammy Savage

Mira Lane

Allison Anne O'Mahony

Wende E Copfer

Keith Alan Regier

Emily S Voreis

Zachary Gutt

Alec John Berntson

Hady Moustafa Abou El Kheir

Laura Kern

Jerry Daniel Bain

Steve Ballon

Systems, methods, and computer media for enhancing search results, as well as user interfaces for performing search queries and navigating search results, are provided. A search query is received from a user. A plurality of web pages relevant to the search query are identified. At least one of the relevant web pages is identified as popular. A search result page is generated including a search result listing and a search result page header. The search result page header includes a link to the popular web page to provide the user with a quick and easy way to select a popular web page relevant to the user's search query.

Navigation to popular search results

Computer-storage media, methods, and systems for formatting and surfacing a badge are provided. The badge represents a graphical region presented in visual association with a search result on a web-results page. The format of the badge is initially dictated by a template that is automatically generated. Upon collecting performance information, a website owner is granted permission to alter the template and appearance of the badge, via a publisher portal. During interaction with the publisher portal, the website owner is prompted to provide feedback in order to manage parameters of the badge, such as uploading a visual representation of a logo, trademark, or other branded element, or specifying a type of metadata to be imported to the graphical region. Accordingly, the badge operates to improve a users' ability to distinguish between search results on the web-results page and assists users in confidently deciding upon and selecting a relevant search result.

Aiding search-result selection using visually branded elements

Display screen with icon

Methods, systems, graphical user interfaces, and computer-readable media for visually searching and exploring a set of objects are provided. A computer system executes a method that generates three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations for a set of objects in response to a user interaction with an interface that displays the three-dimensional representations or the two-dimensional representations. The interface includes filter controls, sorting controls, and classification controls, which are dynamically altered based on the content of a user query or the attributes of the objects in the three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations.

Visual search and three-dimensional results

Search results can be viewed and acted upon. Searches may be conducted using a search input in conjunction with a selected category. The search results may be produced from such a search. One or more of the produced search results may be highlighted for previewing. Along with the preview, available actions are presented that are based on the selected category. A user can initiate an action of the available actions. The initiated action is then performed with respect to the highlighted search result(s).

Viewable and actionable search results

Graphic user interface for a portion of a display screen

A customizable service provider user interface is described. In an implementation, a user is logged onto a suite a web services, to which, the user has not previously logged on. A user interface is output having a plurality of portions, one or more of which are customizable by the user through use of one or more overlays to customize interaction with the suite of web services.

Customizable service provider user interface

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