Patent ID: 9009164
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method performed by a search engine system, the method comprising: maintaining one or more search engine indexes, associated with the search engine system, that index collection items and base items; wherein each of the collection items: wherein the collection items indexed in the one or more search engine indexes include a first collection item; storing, in a search engine index, of the one or more search engine indexes, a first index entry for the first collection item; wherein the first index entry includes a tag describing the first collection item itself, rather than for any of the base items represented by the first collection item; wherein the tag describing the first collection item is metadata that includes one or more of: storing data that indicates which items, indexed in the one or more search engine indexes, are collection items; in response to receiving a search query: wherein the set of matching items identified includes one or more particular base items and the first collection item; determining that the first collection item is a collection item based on the data that indicates which items, indexed in the one or more search engine indexes, are collection items; responding to said search query by generating search results based at least in part on the set of matching items, wherein the search results comprise: wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.