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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Peter Jin Hong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pravir K. Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Milpitas, CA (US);
Kavi J. Goel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Omer Bar-or, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jack W. Menzel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christina R. Dhanaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jared L. Levy, Los Altos, CA (US);
Shashidhar A. Thakur, Saratoga, CA (US);
Grace Chung, Zetland, AU;
Benson Tsai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.