Google Inc.

Stephen R Lawrence

Niniane Wang

Omar Habib Khan

Gregory Joseph Badros

David P Marmaros

David Benjamin Auerbach

Mihai Florin Ionescu

Ellen Spertus

Christopher M Prince

Nikhil Bhatla

Krishna Asur Bharat

Mehran Sahami

Oren Eli Zamir

Jeffrey Korn

Amit Singhal

Andrew Fikes

Ross Koningstein

Lawrence E Page

Jian Gong Deng

Valentin Spitkovsky

Nikhil Bhatta

Mihai F Ionescu

Personalized network searching, in which a search query is received from a user, and a request is received to personalize a search result. Responsive to the search query and the request to personalize the search result, a personalized search result is generated by searching a personalized search object. Responsive to the search query, a general search result is generated by searching the general search object. The personalized search result and the general search result are provided to a client device, an advertisement is selected based at least in part upon the personalized search object, and the advertisement, the personalized search result, and the general search result are displayed.

Personalized network searching

A system and method for creating a user profile and for using the user profile to order search results returned by a search engine. The user profile is based on search queries submitted by a user, the user's specific interaction with the documents identified by the search engine and personal information provided by the user. Terms for the user profile may be selected from the documents accessed by the user by performing paragraph sampling or context analysis. Generic scores associated with the search results are modulated by the user profile to measure their relevance to a user's preference and interest. The search results are re-ordered accordingly so that the most relevant results appear on the top of the list. User profiles can be created and/or stored on the client side or server side of a client-server network environment.

Personalization of web search results using term, category, and link-based user profiles

Methods and systems for improving user search experience with a search engine by providing a way for associated users to personalize search queries and/or search results based on users' information gathered from a social network. Search personalization can be achieved through the tailoring of search methodologies or the ranking or ordering of search results in accordance with information gathered for each user.

Personalizing search queries based on user membership in social network communities

Systems and methods that improve client-side searching are described. In one aspect, a system and method for identifying an article, and determining a ranking score for the article based at least in part on duration data, access data, URL data, or trajectory data associated with the article is described.

Methods and systems for improving a search ranking using article information

Methods and systems for correlating connections between users and links between articles to identify search and/or ad spamming are disclosed. Social networks can be used to identify connections between users for correlation with links between articles, which can be identified through searches of article contents and/or back tracing accesses to articles. One disclosed method comprises identifying first associations between a plurality of users in a network of associated users; identifying second associations between one or more users and one or more articles; identifying third associations between at least some of the articles or between some of the users and access to some of the articles; and determining at least one of the third associations is correlated with one or more of the first associations.

Methods and systems for correlating connections between users and links between articles

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for identifying duplicate events. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes receiving an event based on a user interaction with a client device, and determining content and a location for the event. The method further includes calculating a duplicate value for the event using the content and the location of the even, and determining a degree of similarity by comparing the duplicate value to a table of stored duplicate values. In addition, the method includes identifying the event as a duplicate of a stored event when the degree of similarity exceeds a predetermined threshold level of similarity, and indexing the event on the client device depending on the determination of whether or not the event is a duplicate of the stored event.

Methods and systems for eliminating duplicate events

Systems and methods for article location and retrieval are described. In one described method, the normal processing of an operating system call associated with a dialog control is interrupted, and a search dialog control is displayed. The search dialog control is associated with an index comprising a plurality of events. Each of the plurality of events may be associated with at least one of a plurality of client applications and at least some of the plurality of events can be captured in real time. Each event may be associated with one or more articles.

Systems and methods for article location and retrieval

The present invention comprises systems and methods, and computer readable media comprising the methods, for updating software applications. The systems and methods of the present invention provide automation and flexibility to the updating process. Processor usage and network usage are monitored and software updates are initiated and/or continued during periods where processor and/or network usage are low. The update process may be halted when the processor and/or network connection are called upon for other uses. Processor and/or network usage may also be throttled, for example limiting the bandwidth available for the download to maintain sufficient processor share and/or bandwidth for other tasks. Adverse impact on a computer user is minimized.

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Stephen R Lawrence