Highlighting of document elements

摘要

A system may aggregate highlighting information associated with a document that includes a number of elements. The highlighting information may identify one or more of the elements that have been highlighted by a group of users. The system may determine weight values for the one or more elements, generate information associated with the document based on the weight values, and provide the information.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving (i) data identifying a first portion of a document that was highlighted by a first user of a search engine, and (ii) data identifying a second portion of the document that was highlighted by a different, second user of the search engine; determining that the document has been identified as a search result of a search query submitted by a third user of the search engine; in response to determining that the document has been identified as a search result of the search query submitted by the third user of the search engine, obtaining an initial snippet to include in a search result that references the document, wherein the initial snippet is obtained without regard to data that identifies portions of the document that were highlighted by users of the search engine; modifying the initial snippet based at least on the (i) data identifying the first portion of the document that was highlighted by the first user of the search engine and (ii) the data identifying the second portion of the document that was highlighted by the different, second user of the search engine; and providing, for display to the third user, a search results page that includes a search result that (i) references the document and (ii) includes the modified snippet.