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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Bryan C. Horling, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David M. Byttow, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pavan K. Desikan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pavani Diwanji, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ronald Ho, Fremont, CA (US);
Sagar Kamdar, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sara Su, San Jose, CA (US);
Vivek P. Gundotra, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search input including one or more search terms; determining whether the search input includes a particular token; in response to determining that the search input includes the particular token, determining whether the one or more search terms are associated with a particular social page; in response to determining that the one or more search terms are associated with the particular social page, providing the particular social page without providing search results.