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Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2008
Applicant:

Ashish Jain, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventor:

Ashish Jain, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

One or more query terms that were submitted by a user in connection with a first vertical of a plurality of verticals and not in connection with any other vertical of the plurality of verticals are received. A first set of search results that are both (a) indexed in the first vertical and (b) relevant to the one or more query terms is determined. A second set of search results that are both (a) indexed in a second vertical, but not in the first vertical and (b) relevant to the one or more query terms is also determined. A search results page that contains search results both sets of search results, and that visually distinguishes the sets from each other, is generated. According to one aspect, the results from the second set are shown on the search results page in what appears to be a yellow sticky note.


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