Patent ID: 8229925

Claim:
A method of providing compiled privacy safe search query information performed by one or more computers, the method comprising: receiving a request for search query information for a content item; identifying privacy safe search queries in response to which the content item was provided for presentation, wherein: each of the privacy safe search queries is identified as being privacy safe based on a popularity threshold value being met by a result of a function of a first number of unique users from which the search query was received over a predetermined length of time and a second number of unique users from which at least one related search query was received over the predetermined length of time; and the at least one related query, after normalization, is the same as the search query, wherein normalization alters query text to increase the possibility that a query may be identified as privacy safe; compiling the search query information for the content item, the search query information specifying measures of user interaction with the content item when presented in response to receipt of the identified privacy safe search queries; and providing the compiled search query information for presentation.