Filtering social search results

A technology of search results and search queries, applied in the field of search, can solve problems such as shadowing, and achieve the effect of improving the search experience

Active Publication Date: 2014-06-25
GOOGLE LLC
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[0022] Aspects of the present specification relate to filtering search results based on social signals. In some examples, search results can be filtered based on the user's social graph. According to aspects of the present specification, a searching user may identify one or more other users whose search results are to be filtered. In some examples, one or more other users may include members of the search user's social graph. In some examples, search results may be determined based on a search query provided by a searching user. It may be determined whether the search results include social search results. Social search results may include one or more user-generated data. One or more users may include members of the search user's social graph. It can be determined whether social search results correspond to users that the searching user has blocked or otherwise filtered. If a search result corresponds to a blocked user, the search user is not shown the social annotation a...

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This specification describes technologies relating to searching. In general, aspects of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a search query from a user of a search service, identifying search results including general search results responsive to the search query and social search results associated with content generated by one or more members of a user social graph associated with the user that are responsive to the search query, the search results corresponding to digital content stored in one or more computer-readable storage media, determining that a first social search result is associated with a first muted member that is a member of the user social graph, generating filtered search results in response to determining that the social search result is associated with the first muted member, and providing the filtered search results for display to the user.

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[0001] Cross References to Applications [0002] This application claims priority to US Application No. 13 / 204,155, filed August 5, 2011, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, and entitled FILTERING SOCIAL SEARCH RESULTS. technical field [0003] This disclosure relates to searching. Background technique [0004] Search engines aim to identify resources (eg, images, audio, video, web pages, text, documents) that are relevant to a user's needs and present information about the resources in a way that is most useful to the user. Search engines return sets of search results in response to text queries submitted by users. For example, in response to an image search text query, the search engine returns a set of search results identifying resources in response to the query. [0005] It is possible to return a large number of search results for a given query. It may thus be difficult for a search user to select results that are most relevant to the searc...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F7/00
CPCG06Q10/10G06Q50/01G06F17/30867G06F16/9535
Inventor M·E·库利克A·D·伯西M·海曼斯
Owner GOOGLE LLC
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