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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2010
Jonathan J. Effrat, Mountain View, CA (US);
David E. Lecomte, Zurich, CH;
Christina R. Dhanaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Othar Hansson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jonathan J. Effrat, Mountain View, CA (US);
David E. Lecomte, Zurich, CH;
Christina R. Dhanaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Othar Hansson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying answer boxes for presentation to a user. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of, while receiving an input entered in a search engine query input field by a first user, and before the first user has submitted the input as a search request, obtaining content for an answer box for the input and presenting the answer box to the first user. The answer box can be an answer box associated with a dominant query for the input, or can be an answer box identified from historical answer box data for the input.