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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Thomas M. Annau, San Carlos, CA (US);
Gregory B. Lindahl, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Samuel Makonnen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Markson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Keith Peters, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Michael Saliba, San Francisco, CA (US);
Al Sary, Richmond, CA (US);
Rich Skrenta, San Carlos, CA (US);
Dan Swartz, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert N. Truel, San Carlos, CA (US);
Timothy Walters, Redwood City, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A search engine system, including a slashtag server configured to detect at least one key word in a search query and generate an alternative search query from the at least one key word, the alternative search query being based at least on computing an intermediary search of a plurality of characters from the at least one key word as the plurality of characters are being typed by a user, and for use in searching unaltered internet documents. Also a web server that may be configured to generate a first search result based on the alternative search query and cause display of the first search result in a web browser.