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Xiao Wei

Max Glenn Morris

Gaurav S Anand

Elbio Abib

Jon Gordner

Alexander Hills

Michael Jay Gilmore

Manav Mishra

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Priya Vaidyanathan

Edward Boyle Averett

Brian Eric Uphoff

A computer provides a search interface that accesses multiple search providers, and aggregates their suggestions, providing a single, unified suggestion view across the multiple search providers. Suggestions are received from the multiple sources, such as a search engine on the internet or other public resource, and a search tool on the computer that accesses local or private resources. The suggestions are combined, ranked and displayed as a list to the user, from which the user is able to select.

Aggregating personalized suggestions from multiple sources

A system level search user interface that includes both a data entry portion and a search identification portion is displayed. Data input by a user as a search term is displayed in the data entry portion, and identifiers of each of one or more scopes on the computing device that can be searched using the search term are displayed in the search identification portion. Search results based on a selected scope are displayed in a search results portion of the system level search user interface. A set of keyboard shortcuts allow users to quickly search using any of the scopes, and see previews of a number of results that each of the scopes return. Additionally, the system level search user interface allow users to easily focus on different search result entries, and efficiently change scopes for searching.

Facilitating interaction with system level search user interface

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