Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zian Yu

Shan Zhou

Rahim Daya

Timothy Patrick Jordt

Gregory Alan Walloch

Zachary Tyler Piepmeyer

Jordan Anthony Saints

Abhishek Gupta

Shakti Dhirendraji Sinha

Xianren Wu

Satya Kanduri

System and techniques for search result refinement are described herein. Search results and a search context may be obtained. A context dependent facet set may be added to a search result in the search results. A user interface of the context dependent facet set may be presented in conjunction with displaying the search results. A selection of a facet in the context dependent facet set may be received from a user. The search results being displayed may be filtered such that search results that meet a measurement of the facet are included in the displayed search results and the remaining search results are excluded from the display.

Search result refinement

System and techniques for facet expansion are described herein. A user interface element may be presented on facet selection portion of a search result display including search results. Here, the user interface element is arranged to accept user input of a facet. Partial user input for a facet may be received. A peer entity to an entity corresponding to the facet may be obtained. A peer facet may be presented in a suggestion element in the facet selection portion in response to receiving the partial user input.

System for facet expansion

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