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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2010
Yookyung Kim, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hongjian Zhao, Fremont, CA (US);
Xin LI, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexandra Levich, Seattle, WA (US);
Tom Chi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ming Sui, Fremont, CA (US);
Yihong Zhao, San Jose, CA (US);
Marc Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yookyung Kim, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hongjian Zhao, Fremont, CA (US);
Xin Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexandra Levich, Seattle, WA (US);
Tom Chi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ming Sui, Fremont, CA (US);
Yihong Zhao, San Jose, CA (US);
Marc Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An online article is enhanced by displaying, in association with the article, supplemental content that includes entities that are extracted from the article and/or entities that are related to entities that are extracted from the article. The supplemental content further includes information about each of the entities. The information about an entity may be obtained by searching for the entity in one or more searchable repositories of data. For example, the supplemental content may include, for each entity, video, image, web, and/or news search results. The supplemental content may further include information such as stock quotes, abstracts, maps, scores, and so on. The entities are selected using a variety of analyses and ranking techniques based on contextual factors such as user-specific information, time-sensitive popularity trends, grammatical features, search result quality, and so on. The entities may further be selected for purposes such as generating ad-based revenue.