Google Inc.

Toshiaki Fujiki

Ryoichi Imaizumi

Reiko Hamada

Hui Xu

Jaehyun Yeom

Chaesang Jung

Kavi J Goel

Shuhei Takahashi

Slaven Bilac

Tomohiko Kimura

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting search results based on device specific utilities. In one aspect, a method includes determining whether a set of search results are ineligible for an adjustment operation based a query being a navigational query. For each query for which the search results are determined to be eligible for an adjustment operation based on a determination that the query is not a navigational query, the search results are adjusted so that the search results referencing resources in a first proper subset are boosted relative to the search results referencing resources in a second proper subset.

Device specific adjustment based on resource utilities

A device may be configured to receive a query; receive information regarding documents that are relevant to the query; identify one or more entities associated with the documents; determine a category for the query based on: the query, a topic of the documents, and the one or more entities; determine, based on the query and the category, that an entity list should be presented in response to the query; and present a search result document based on determining that the entity list should be presented in response to the query. The search result document may include a list with information identifying the one or more entities.

Generating ranked lists of entities

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting search results based on device specific utilities. In one aspect, a method includes determining whether a set of search results are ineligible for an adjustment operation based on an absence of a first proper subset of the resources that are determined to have a positive utility for a first device type from which a query was received. The determination is independent of the presence of a second proper subset of the resources that are determined to have a negative utility for the first device type. For each query for which the search results are determined to be adjusted, the search results are adjusted so that the search results referencing resources in the first proper subset are boosted relative to the search results referencing resources in the second proper subset.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining when to search a native application corpus for native applications and insert native application search results into a set of general web search results in response to receiving a query.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshiaki Fujiki