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Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 09, 2013
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Daniel Belov, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew E. Kulick, San Francisco, CA (US);

Adam D. Bursey, San Jose, CA (US);

David Yen, Plano, TX (US);

Maureen Heymans, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01);
Abstract

Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of receiving a search query, identifying potential search results responsive to the search query, the potential search results corresponding to digital content stored in one or more computer-readable storage media, determining that the potential search results include user-generated content that is generated using one or more computer-implemented social services, receiving data associated with the user-generated content, the data including one or more scores, determining, based on the one or more scores, that the user-generated content is to be provided as a search result, generating search results, the search results including web-based search results and at least a portion of the user-generated content, and transmitting the search results to a client computing device for display to the searching user.


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