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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Max Ventilla, San Francisco, CA (US);
Damon Horowitz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert J. Spiro, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nathan Stoll, San Francisco, CA (US);
Max Ventilla, San Francisco, CA (US);
Damon Horowitz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert J. Spiro, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nathan Stoll, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a social search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a question from an asker in which the question is associated with one or more topics; selecting candidate answerers based at least partly on each answerer's respective relationship to the asker; sending the question successively to groups of one or more candidate answerers according to the ranking until an answer is received from a particular one of the candidate answerers; and sending to the asker the received answer and information that identifies the particular answerer.