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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2011
Trystan G. Upstill, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Oleksandr Grushetskyy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrei Damian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Navneet Panda, Mountain View, CA (US);
Aysel Ozgur, Mountain View, CA (US);
Trystan G. Upstill, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Oleksandr Grushetskyy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrei Damian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Navneet Panda, Mountain View, CA (US);
Aysel Ozgur, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for servicing search queries. In one aspect, a method includes determining that a general search query is a locally significant query for a user location that is associated with the user general search query. In turn, a local search query is generated using the general search query and a location phrase representing the user location. A set of set of general search results responsive to the general search query and a set of local search results responsive to the local search query are requested. A final set of search results responsive to the search query are selected. The final set of search results include at least one search result that is included in the set of local search results, and is not included in a pre-specified quantity of highest ranking search results from the set of general search results. Data that cause presentation of the final set of search results are provided.