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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2011
Max Ventilla, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert J. Spiro, San Francisco, CA (US);
Damon Horowitz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sepandar D. Kamvar, San Francisco, CA (US);
William C. Maccartney, Mountain View, CA (US);
Winton Henry Ellis Davies, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Kim, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Max Ventilla, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert J. Spiro, San Francisco, CA (US);
Damon Horowitz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sepandar D. Kamvar, San Francisco, CA (US);
William C. MacCartney, Mountain View, CA (US);
Winton Henry Ellis Davies, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Kim, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs, for a social search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an answer to a question from an answerer; identifying an entity in the answer, in which the entity refers to a product, a service, a company, or a merchant; obtaining permission from the answerer to provide an interactive link for the entity in the answer to a resource from which the entity can be obtained; receiving a user submitted query and determining that the query is related to the entity; and responsive to determining, providing the answer, including the link to the resource, as part of search results that are responsive to the query.