ASYNCHRONOUS SEARCH QUERY

摘要

Implementations described herein request recommendations from recipients of a recommendation request. A requester of a recommendation defines objective criteria to limit search results relating to the recommendation. These objective criteria can be uniquely specified in a recommendation request with a location or a link to a location in which recipients of the recommendation request can enter a search query to search for entities to recommend. The requester shares the recommendation request with a set of recipients via one or more communication channels (e.g., over a network). The recipients each then conduct a search for an entity to recommend using an unstructured query. The search results are ranked based on the objective criteria entered by the requester and their relevance to the entered query terms. Each recipient can recommend one or more of the search results that appear in response to the recommendation request.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
one or more computing devices each comprising a processor, communication interface and memory, wherein said computing devices are in communication with each other via a computer network whenever there are multiple computing devices; and a computer program having program modules executable by the one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices being directed by the program modules of the computer program to, receive objective criteria to limit search results relating to a recommendation; format a recommendation request with a location or link to a location to search for entities to recommend; share the recommendation request with one or more recipients; receive from the one or more recipients, acting on a received recommendation request, an unstructured search query to search for one or more entities; rank search results returned in response to each search query based on relevance to terms of an associated query and the objective criteria; and receive from one or more of the recipients a selection of one or more ranked search results as a recommendation.