Yahoo! Inc.

Google Inc.

Overture Services, Inc.

Winton Henry Davies

Chris Theodore Kalaboukis

Ronald Martinez

Karon A Weber

Samantha Marie Tripodi

Oliver Raskin

Deepa Joshi

Darren J Davis

Mark Paine

Donald F Geddis

Jon Dukes-Schlossberg

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting users that are connected to a particular user; accessing, for each of the selected users, an interest score of the selected user that reflects the selected user's predicted interest in the particular topic, or interest data that that is used to determine the interest score of the selected user; accessing a model that is used for generating the interest score of the particular user that reflects the particular user's predicted interest in the particular topic, wherein the interest score of the particular user is generated based at least on the interest scores or interest data of the selected users for the particular topic; and applying the interest scores or interest data of the selected users for the particular topic to the model to generate the interest score of the particular user for the particular topic.

Social network-influenced interest detection

An improved system and method for supporting web system services is provided for storing data and context of client applications on the web. A client application may include a web system services interface for invoking web system services to support web applications to operate over the web using different devices that may store data and context of web applications as a web application document onto a web server. A web application document may be represented by components that may include view information, content, and context information. The application may also include a web system services user interface for providing a graphical user interface for a user to invoke web system services that may include a new document system service, a store document system service, and a restore document system service. A schema for context scope may be implemented for collecting context information relevant to the web application document.

System and method of providing context information for client application data stored on the web

System and method of restoring data and context of client applications stored on the web

System and method of storing data and context of client application on the web

System and method for providing web system services for storing data and context of client applications on the web

Methods and systems for associating an unbidded term with a bidded term and for pricing search terms. The method for associating an unbidded term with a bidded term comprises selecting a first set of search engine results for the unbidded term, selecting a second set of search engine results for the bidded second term, comparing the first and second sets, and associating the unbidded term with at least one bidded term based on the results of comparing. The method for assigning monetary values to search terms comprises receiving bids for a first term, deriving a similarity function between the first and second term and pricing the second term based upon the derived similarity function and the bid on the first term.

Systems and methods for assigning monetary values to search terms

System and method of providing a user interface for client applications to store data and context information on the web

System and method for associating an unvalued search term with a valued search term

A system and method for selecting a proxy keyword for an unknown document. An unknown document is received by a receiver. A plurality of candidate documents and corresponding keywords are determined for the unknown document. Using the keywords from the candidate documents, proxy keywords are determined for the unknown document based on a plurality of factors including a length of the keywords, a distance of the candidate documents from the unknown document, a similarity of the text between the unknown document and the respective candidate document, a rank of the keywords within each candidate document, and a frequency of the keyword within its respective candidate document.

System and method for labeling a document

In a pay-for-placement search system, the system makes search term recommendations to advertisers managing their accounts in one or more of two ways. A first technique involves looking for good search terms directly on an advertiser's web site. A second technique involves comparing an advertiser to other, similar advertisers and recommending the search terms the other advertisers have chosen. The first technique is called spidering and the second technique is called collaborative filtering. In the preferred embodiment, the output of the spidering step is used as input to the collaborative filtering step. The final output of search terms from both steps is then interleaved in a natural way.

Recommending search terms using collaborative filtering and web spidering

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Winton Henry Davies