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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2011
Roni F. Zeiger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas A. Lasko, Nashville, TN (US);
Andrew Tomkins, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Angelo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew K. Gray, Reading, MA (US);
Russell Ryan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Namrata U. Godbole, Cambridge, MA (US);
Roni F. Zeiger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas A. Lasko, Nashville, TN (US);
Andrew Tomkins, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Angelo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew K. Gray, Reading, MA (US);
Russell Ryan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Namrata U. Godbole, Cambridge, MA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities using search results. One of the methods includes determining that a search query includes a respective text reference to each of one or more predetermined attributes, wherein each attribute is associated with an entity type; obtaining search results for the search query from a search engine, each search result identifying a respective resource; for each of a plurality of the obtained search results, determining an initial score for each of a plurality of entities of the entity type based on occurrences of names of the entity in the resource identified by the search result; generating a final score for each of the entities based on the initial scores; and selecting one or more names of entities of the entity type to include in a response to the search query based on the final scores.