Patent ID: 9009129
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for presenting, in association with search engine results pages, results of search queries with indications that domains associated with at least a portion of such results have been endorsed by a user and/or social network connections of the user, the system comprising: one or more processors; one or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: receive a search query from the user; identify a plurality of documents that satisfies the received search query; determine that the user is authenticated with at least one social networking application associated with the social network connections of the user; identify at least one document of the plurality of documents having a document uniform resource locator (URL) that is associated with a head domain, wherein the document URL is different from the head domain, and wherein the document URL has not been endorsed by the user and/or one or more of the social network connections of the user; determine the head domain associated with the document URL has been endorsed by the user and/or the one or more of the social network connections of the user; and present the document URL of the at least one document on a search engine results page with an indication that the head domain associated with the document URL has been endorsed by the user and/or the one or more of the social network connections of the user.