Search System Navigational Query Social Content Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current search engines struggle to effectively integrate social content from social networks into search results in a timely and relevant manner, particularly for navigational queries, which can lead to delayed and incomplete user experiences.
Innovation Solution
The system identifies navigational queries and simultaneously searches social networks to retrieve relevant content from user-specific social network pages, combining this content with general search results to enhance search result relevance and speed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If social content is integrated into search results, then search result relevance is improved, but search processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-identifies navigational queries using a classifier before executing the full search process. This preliminary classification enables the system to prepare for parallel processing of social content retrieval, reducing the overall processing time while maintaining enhanced relevance for navigational queries
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a social content retrieval component that acts as an intermediary, fetching social network content in parallel with the general search process. This intermediary component retrieves content from social networks using the query and user profile, then integrates it with general search results without blocking the main search flow
2Loss of information
If social content from multiple sources is retrieved, then comprehensiveness of search results is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the search process into distinct components: a general search component and a social content retrieval component. Each component handles specific data sources independently, with the social content component specifically targeting navigational queries. This segmentation allows comprehensive content retrieval while managing complexity through modular architecture
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts its behavior based on query classification. For navigational queries, it activates parallel social content retrieval; for other queries, it proceeds with standard search processing. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to retrieve comprehensive content when needed while avoiding unnecessary complexity for routine queries
3Productivity
If parallel processing of social content and general search is implemented, then search speed is improved, but coordination complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a coordination mechanism that acts as an intermediary between the general search component and social content retrieval component. This coordinator manages the parallel processes, integrates results from both sources, and presents unified search results to the user, enabling speed improvement while containing coordination complexity through a dedicated management layer
Data Source
AI summary
Systems for displaying social content in search results may include receiving an input query for a subject; determining that the input query is a navigational query; identifying a first page on a social network for the subject; obtaining content from the first page; obtaining search results corresponding to the input query; identifying a second page for the subject from among the search results, where the second page is represented in the search results by a snippet of content associated with the second page; combining the content from the first page with the snippet to thereby produce combined content; and outputting data corresponding to the combined content.