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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2009
Gueorgui N. Djabarov, Tucson, AZ (US);
Alex B. Harper, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stuart B. Morgan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David I. Maclachlan, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael D. Pinkerton, Ashburn, VA (US);
John Nicholas Jitkoff, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ryan C. Tabone, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gueorgui N. Djabarov, Tucson, AZ (US);
Alex B. Harper, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stuart B. Morgan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David I. MacLachlan, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael D. Pinkerton, Ashburn, VA (US);
John Nicholas Jitkoff, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ryan C. Tabone, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method including receiving from a user a portion of a query. The method further includes providing the portion of the query to multiple data provider modules nearly simultaneously. The method further includes receiving, from ones of the data provider modules, a set of search suggestion items resulting from searching the data sources, each of the search suggestion items including a rank and a relevance value. The method further includes determining a score for each of the search suggestion items by combining the rank and the relevance value for each of the search suggestion items. The method further includes sorting the search suggestion items using the scores. The method further includes presenting the sorted search suggestion items to the user.