Snap Inc.

Yaming Lin

Andre Madeira

Newar Husam Al Majid

Donald Giovannini

Wisam Dakka

Ranveer Kunal

Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi

Andrei Damian

Jungho Ahn

Congxing Cai

Robson Araujo

Guilherme Fernandes

Aymeric Damien

Maryam Daneshi

Yan Wu

Yi Liu

Jeremy Baker Voss

Sheldon Chang

Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that improve media content search functionality and curation of media content. For instance, various embodiments described in this document provide features that can present media content items in the form of dynamic collection of media content items upon a user typing into a search bar. In another instance, various embodiments described herein improve media content search functionality by ranking user facing search features using input signals.

Searching social media content

Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for annotating a collection of media items, such as digital images. According to some embodiments, an annotation system automatically determines one or more annotations for a plurality of media content items, and generates a collection of media content items that associates the determined annotations with the plurality of media content items. Depending on the embodiment, annotations that may be determined for the plurality of media content (and associated with the collection for the media content items) can include, without limitation, a caption, a geographic location, a category, a novelty measurement, an event, and a highlight media content item representing the collection.

Annotating a collection of media content items

Systems and methods for ranking a feed in a social network. The systems and methods include operations for displaying a feed includes identifying a group of users associated with a first user, identifying a plurality of content generated by one or more of the group of users, determining one or more actions that may result when each of the plurality of content is presented to the first user, ranking the content based on the one or more determined actions, and displaying the content to the first user according to the ranking.

Ranking notifications in a social network feed

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Yaming Lin