Google Inc.

Wanda Wen-hui Hung

Othar Hansson

Sagar Kamdar

Jun Gong

Bogdan Dorohonceanu

Jeremy Hylton

Kumar Mayur Thakur

Sheng Zhang

Yihua Wu

John E Saalweachter

Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of receiving a search query from a searching user, in response to the search query matching a trigger query, receiving a first set of authoritative users, processing the first set of authoritative users to define a second set of authoritative users, and transmitting instructions to display data associated with authoritative users of the second set of authoritative users with search results responsive to the search query.

Showing prominent users for information retrieval requests

Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of actions of receiving a search query from a searching user, determining that the search query corresponds to a trigger query and, in response, providing data associated with the first set of authoritative users for potential display to the searching user, determining a second set of authoritative users based on the first set of authoritative users, for each authoritative user in the second set of authoritative users, receiving a contact status between the authoritative user and the searching user within a social networking service, and transmitting instructions to display data associated with authoritative users of the second set of authoritative users with search results responsive to the search query, the data including the contact status for each authoritative user in the second set of authoritative users.

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Los Gatos, CA, United States of America

Wanda Wen-hui Hung