Processing social search results

摘要

Techniques are described herein for processing social search results. Such social search results may be included in a relatively higher-ranked (e.g., a highest-ranked) subset of a user's search results and/or selected from a relatively lower-ranked subset of the user's search results in response to a determination that the relatively higher-ranked subset includes social search result(s). In one example, the social search results (or a subset thereof) may be annotated to include publicly available rich metadata. Such metadata may be extracted from user profiles on social networking domains from which the social search results are received. In another example, the social search results (or a subset thereof) may be clustered such that they are consecutively ranked. In yet another example, the social search results (or a subset thereof) may be configured to be displayed in a designated arrangement (e.g., in a grid having multiple columns).

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining an initial subset of a plurality of search results that are retrieved based on a search query, each search result in the initial subset having a relevance with regard to the search query that exceeds a relevance threshold; determining that the initial subset includes one or more first social search results, each first social search result indicating information from a user profile on a social networking domain; based on determining that the initial subset includes the one or more first social search results, selecting one or more second social search results from the plurality of search results based on each of the one or more second social search results indicating information from a user profile on a social networking domain, each second social search result having a relevance with regard to the search query that does not exceed the relevance threshold; determining that a quantity of the one or more first social search results exceeds a designated threshold; and based on the quantity of the one or more first social search results exceeding the designated threshold, combining a designated subset of the one or more second social search results and at least a portion of the initial subset that includes the one or more first social search results to provide a presentation subset of the plurality of search results that is to be presented to a user that is associated with the search query.