Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Song Zhou

Nitin Agrawal

Sanaz Ahari

Nicholas Eric Craswell

Milad Shokouhi

Filip Andrzej Radlinski

Amir Jonatan Padovitz

Nick Craswell

Timothy C Hoad

Muhammad Aatif Awan

Bodo Billerbeck

A system and method are provided for detecting entity information contained within search results. The detected entity information can be used to determine a category of entity as well as a specific entity within the search results. Entity information can be extracted from the documents associated with the search results. This information can be used as part of the information for an entity card, which can be displayed to a user in conjunction with and/or in place of the search results.

Entity detection and extraction for entity cards

A method, system, and medium are provided for enhancing a search result snippet that is associated with a URL. Potentially descriptive terms of the URL are identified by reconciling multiple sources of terms related to the URL. One aspect includes comparing search terms of historically relevant queries to anchor text for the URL. The search result snippet might be intelligently enhanced by causing common terms to be visibly distinguished when the snippet is displayed.

Intelligent enhancement of a search result snippet

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Song Zhou