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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2011
Xin Liu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Nitin Agrawal, Redmond, WA (US);
James Francis Gilsinan, Iv, Redmond, WA (US);
James B. Lawson, Kenmore, WA (US);
Brian Whalen Macdonald, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mairéad Áine O'donovan, Seattle, WA (US);
Kimberly M. Vlcek, Redmond, WA (US);
Nipoon Malhotra, Redmond, WA (US);
Xin Liu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Nitin Agrawal, Redmond, WA (US);
James Francis Gilsinan, IV, Redmond, WA (US);
James B. Lawson, Kenmore, WA (US);
Brian Whalen MacDonald, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mairéad Áine O'Donovan, Seattle, WA (US);
Kimberly M. Vlcek, Redmond, WA (US);
Nipoon Malhotra, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing query-completion suggestions configured to be searched against vertical information domains in response to receiving a general web search query are provided. At least a portion of a general web search query is received. As the portion of the general web search query is received, query-completion suggestions are determined as is a likely primary intent associated with at least a portion of the determined query-completion suggestions. If the likely primary intent associated with a particular query-completion suggestion is for information associated with a particular vertical information domain other than the general web domain, the query-completion suggestion is provided such that selection thereof causes searching of the query-completion suggestion against the particular information domain for search results.