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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2012
Christopher Lunt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nicholas Galbreath, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey Winner, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christopher Lunt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nicholas Galbreath, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey Winner, Los Altos, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Particular embodiments access a search query submitted by a first user of a social-networking system; identify one or more web pages in response to the search query; for each of the one or more web pages, determine a value indicating a number of user clicks associated with the web page by one or more second users of the social-networking system who are connected to the first user within the social-networking system; and send a set of hyperlinks for the one or more web pages, wherein hyperlinks for web pages where the value is greater than zero are visually emphasized over other hyperlinks.