Google Inc.

William C MacCartney

Sepandar D Kamvar

Michael Kim

Robert Spiro

Damon M Horowitz

Max Ventilla

Winton Henry Ellis Davies

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs, for a social search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an answer to a question from an answerer; identifying an entity in the answer, in which the entity refers to a product, a service, a company, or a merchant; obtaining permission from the answerer to provide an interactive link for the entity in the answer to a resource from which the entity can be obtained; receiving a user submitted query and determining that the query is related to the entity; and responsive to determining, providing the answer, including the link to the resource, as part of search results that are responsive to the query.

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

William C MacCartney