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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
May. 04, 2010
Rasika S. Kumar, Mountain View, CA (US);
James R. Muller, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jacqueline Frances Bavaro, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jack Menzel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amit Singhal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Eugene Nudelman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rasika S. Kumar, Mountain View, CA (US);
James R. Muller, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jacqueline Frances Bavaro, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jack Menzel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amit Singhal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Eugene Nudelman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for merging search results. In one aspect, a method combines search results responsive to a query that are obtained from a local search engine and a universal search engine such that the combined search results are ordered and presented in a way that emphasizes certain business entities in the results.