Google Inc.

Tomoaki Yamauchi

Kenji Inoue

Kenichi Kurihara

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage media are disclosed that involve a server receiving a search query including a query term and a substitute term for the query term and data corresponding to a set of documents. The server accesses a value corresponding to a relevance of the search query to a selected document from the set of documents and determines that the value satisfies a predetermined threshold. The server then generates a score for the selected document according to a first scoring model, the first scoring model including a first increment value for the substitute term. The first scoring model is different than a second scoring model used to generate scores for one or more other documents from the set of documents.

Substitute term scoring

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting search query suggestions. In an aspect, content of a resource that is determined to be responsive to a search query is received, and a candidate set of search query suggestions for the search query is suggested based, in part, on search history data associated with the search query. A final set of search query suggestions based on the search history data and the content of the resource and provided for display on a client device.

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Kamakura, Japan

Tomoaki Yamauchi