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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2007
Rajat Mukherjee, San Jose, CA (US);
Irfan Presswala, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kalpana Ravinarayanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajat Mukherjee, San Jose, CA (US);
Irfan Presswala, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kalpana Ravinarayanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques and tools described herein provide mechanisms for displaying information that is contextually related to a search query. Using these techniques and tools, a user can lookup and discover a person or other entity from contextually related information. For example, if the user submits a search query on the title of a song (e.g., 'Janie's got a gun'), then, in addition to a variety of documents related to the title of the song, the user may be presented with information about a related entity such as 'Aerosmith' (e.g., the band that sings the song). In this way, the techniques and tools provide mechanisms that identify information that is not directly related to the search query, but that is information the user may find useful or interesting based on context of the search query.