Inventors:
Rasika S. Kumar - Mountain View CA, US
James R. Muller - Palo Alto CA, US
Jacqueline Frances Bavaro - Palo Alto CA, US
Jack Menzel - Mountain View CA, US
Amit Singhal - Palo Alto CA, US
Eugene Nudelman - Mountain View CA, US
Assignee:
Google Inc. - Mountain View CA
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for merging search results. In one aspect, a method combines search results responsive to a query that are obtained from a local search engine and a universal search engine such that the combined search results are ordered and presented in a way that emphasizes certain business entities in the results.