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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
May. 08, 2006
Richard Kasperski, Creston, CA;
Arkady Borkovsky, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ralph R. Rabbat, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Richard Kasperski, Creston, CA;
Arkady Borkovsky, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ralph R. Rabbat, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Providing an alternative search query to a predicted search query is disclosed herein. A search query is received from a client node. Prior to receiving an indication from the client node that the search query is completely formed, the following steps are performed: 1) a predicted search query is determined by predicting what the search query will be when completed; and 2) an alternative search query that differs from the predicted search query is determined based on the predicted search query. The alternative search query is provided to the client node. The alternative search query may be something that the user search query is unlikely to complete to. For example, in response to the user entering a search query of 'brittany sp', an alternative search query with a spelling suggestion of 'britney spears' is determined and provided to the user.