Yahoo! Inc.

Excalibur Ip, LLC

Jollify Management Limited

R2 Solutions, LLC

Adchemy, Inc.

Tip Top Technologies, Inc.

Shyam Kapur

Jignashu Parikh

Deepa Joshi

Qi Lu

Eckart Walther

Ashley Woodman Hall

David Ku

Mihir Shah

Oliver Thomas Bayley

Thai Tran

Ali Diab

John Thrall

Alastair Robert Gourlay

Richard Kasperski

Ralph Rabbat

Peter Anick

Jeff Weiner

Scott A Gatz

Stephen L Hood

Phu Hoang

Norman Shi

Adam Durfee

Lynne Pogue

Yuan Kui Shen

Chuck Kung

Anand Madhavan

Matthew Carinio

Ayman Farahat

Joshua M Koran

Richard Edward Chatwin

Chad Brower

Anesh S Madapoosi

Jaiprakash Harish

Harish Jaiprakash

Brian Coppola

Nitin Sharma

J P Harish

Gregory C Martin

In a computerized search system, a document corpus is searched according to a query and results of the search are presentable as an ordered search result set comprising one or more search hits, a search hit being a document of the document corpus or reference thereto. Based on content of the search result set, a number of suggested queries and/or parameter options are presented to a querier, thereby allowing the querier to select a suggested query and/or provide values for the parameters and those selections can be used to reorder the hits of the search result set. The particular suggested queries and/or parameters presented depend on the page elements of the search result set's documents and their categorization. The categorization might be done using concept networks.

Customizable ordering of search results and predictive query generation

Providing a speculative search result for a search query prior to completion of the search query is described. In response to receiving a search query from a client node, a speculative search result is provided to the client node for the search query prior to receiving an indication from the client node that said search query is completely formed. The speculative search result may be displayed on the same web page on the client node as the search query, while the search query is being entered by the user. As the user further enters the search query, a new speculative search result may be provided to the user.

Speculative search result on a not-yet-submitted search query

A system is described for serving data matching content in a search engine marketing system. The system may include a processor, an interface and a memory. The memory may be operatively connected to the processor and may store a page, a content related to the page, a set of terms and a data. The interface may be operatively connected to the memory and the processor and may be used to communicate with a user. The processor may identify a page and a content, perform a semantic analysis on the content to generate a set of terms, match the set of terms to a data, add the data to the page, and the serve the page to a user via the interface.

System for serving data that matches content related to a search results page

A method and apparatus for generating search results including searching by subdomain and providing sponsored results by subdomain is provided. A search system according to embodiments of the present invention analyzes search queries to determine if they are to be routed to subdomains and presents results include sponsored hits sponsored on a subdomain by subdomain basis.

Search system using search subdomain and hints to subdomains in search query statements and sponsored results on a subdomain-by-subdomain basis

A method and system for a search engine for user generated content have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving a search request from a client, the search request directed to user generated content. Relevant user generated content is retrieved, wherein retrieving comprises searching processed user generated content, and wherein processing user generated content comprises receiving first input data including text, creating a substring of text from the first input data and categorizing the substring to produce a concept associated with the substring, wherein the substring is categorized according to one of dictionaries or pattern analysis. An indication of sentiment is assigned to the concept associated with the substring and an indication of influence is assigned to the concept associated with the substring. The relevant user generated content is displayed.

Method and system for a search engine for user generated content (UGC)

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for identifying and displaying supplemental content associated with one or more advertisements responsive to a user query. The method of the present invention comprises identifying one or more advertisements responsive to a user query. One or more terms are extracted from the one or more advertisements identified as responsive to the user query. Supplemental content associated with the one or more advertisements is retrieved through use of the one or more extracted terms, and a display is generated comprising the one or more advertisements identified as responsive to the user query and the supplemental content associated with the one or more advertisements.

System and method for the retrieval and display of supplemental content

Providing a speculative search result for a search query prior to completion of the search query. In response to receiving a search query from a client node, a speculative search result is provided to the client node for the search query prior to receiving an indication from the client node that said search query is completely formed. The speculative search result may be displayed on the same web page on the client node as the search query, while the search query is being entered by the user. As the user further enters the search query, a new speculative search result may be provided to the user.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for the generation and presentation of a search score for a given user on the basis of searches that the user performs over a corpus of documents. The method of present invention comprises selecting a given user and a time period over which to calculate the search score. A score function is applied to information regarding past observed queries for the given user over the time period to calculate a search score for the given user. The search score is displayed to the user in a variety of context using a number of software applications.

Search score for the determination of search quality

A system and method for comparing search queries provided by a user with content items available in an index. Search queries are received and stored in a database query log. Content items are located on a network and stored in an index. A value is generated for concepts and categories in the query log and the index. The value for different categories and concepts in the query log is compared with the value for different categories and concepts in the index. A need for content is determined for a given concept and category, which may be communicated to content providers, e.g., web site operators.

System and method for determining a relationship between available content and current interests to identify a need for content

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Shyam Kapur