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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2005
Jackie Andrew Freeman, San Jose, CA (US);
Tony Sang-min Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David M. Ciemiewicz, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hal Schectman, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Apostolos Karmirantzos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James Michael Reinhold, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jackie Andrew Freeman, San Jose, CA (US);
Tony Sang-min Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David M. Ciemiewicz, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hal Schectman, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Apostolos Karmirantzos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James Michael Reinhold, Berkeley, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set for a query comprises generating a primary result set and a secondary result set, the primary result set and secondary result set generated according to one or more respective disparate search algorithms. A difference result set is determined according to a difference between items in the primary result set and second result set, which is displayed to a user.