Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rune Djurhuus

Helge Grenager Solheim

Evan Matthew Roark

Bård Kvalheim

Lucian Baciu

Michael Susaeg

Dmitry Shaporenkov

Fredrik Holm

John Toews

Morgan Larsson

Anders Fagerhaug

Tiago Duarte Pregueiro Jerónimo

Sarah Brodwall

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating enhanced search services. In an implementation, an enhanced search service receives a search query associated with a user and responsively identifies documents relevant to the search query. The enhanced search service also identifies a social label for each of the documents that is at least partly representative of how the document relates socially to the user. The enhanced search service replies to the search query with search results indicative of at least the documents and the social label for each of the documents.

Enhancing search results with social labels

Embodiments provide indexing and searching features including the use of a configurable schema as part of providing partial update support of one or more aspects of an electronic document or documents, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a system is configured to provide search services including partial update functionality based in part on use of a configurable schema to manage partial document updates and/or query processing operations. A method of one embodiment operates to use a configurable schema to define a number of merge sets that group various document attributes based in part on data source, update, and/or usage parameters to provide an efficient partial update mechanism. Other embodiments are included.

Providing a search service including updating aspects of a document using a configurable schema

A method, system, and one or more computer-readable storage media for visualizing ranking factors for items in a search result list are provided herein. The method includes generating a search result list for a query and generating a visualization of one or more ranking factors for each of a number of items in the search result list.

Visualizing ranking factors for items in a search result list

A search engine provides efficient and scalable search queries for documents using a document summaries index file structure. The document summaries index file structure comprises an index portion and a records portion. The index portion contains a plurality of document identifiers, each of which is linked to a record in the record values portion. The records portion includes a document summary that may include a number of fields, including a name-length, name, type, and value-length, and value. Each record value is searched to determine if the contents matches criteria in the search request. The document summaries index file can be modified to add new indexable criteria in a scalable and efficient manner.

Indexing structures using synthetic document summaries

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