Patent ID: 8145630

Claim:
A computer implemented method for generating search result snippets, comprising: identifying a first set of search results responsive to a first query during a search session, the first query including one or more first search tokens; for each search result in the first set of search results, identifying a first snippet in content referred to by the search result, the first snippet selected based on a location of the one or more first search tokens of the first query in the content referred to by the search result; identifying a second set of search results responsive to a different second query during the search session, the second query including one or more second search tokens; identifying a repetitive search result that is a search result for both the first query and the second query during the search session, wherein the repetitive search result was not selected in the first set of search results; and selecting a second snippet from a plurality of different snippets in content referred to by the repetitive search result wherein the second snippet is different from the identified first snippet for the repetitive search result, and wherein the second snippet is selected based at least partly on an associated weight that is determined from a location of the second snippet in content referred to by the repetitive search result.