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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2007
Nicholas Eric Craswell, Cambridge, GB;
Hugh Evan Williams, Redmond, WA (US);
Ariel J. Lazier, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicholas Eric Craswell, Cambridge, GB;
Hugh Evan Williams, Redmond, WA (US);
Ariel J. Lazier, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An approach is provided for determining related queries for a given search query based on the linking structure of electronic documents within a document set. Document titles are used to represent potential search queries and links between the electronic documents are used to determine relationships between the potential search queries. As such, the document set may be represented as a directed graph in which document titles (which represent potential search queries) are nodes and links are edges between the nodes. When a particular search query is received, a corresponding node is identified and related queries are determined by identifying other nodes having connections with that node.