Patent ID: 8583670

Claim:
One or more computer storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, perform steps to present one or more suggested search-engine queries based on a single search-engine query, the steps comprising: receiving the single search-engine query, the single search-engine query comprising a plurality of terms; upon determining that no search results are associated with the single search-engine query: parsing the plurality of terms of the single search-engine query into individual parsed terms, each individual parsed term being identical to a term in the single search-engine query; for each of the individual parsed terms, identifying one or more suggested queries that are associated with the individual parsed term, wherein the one or more suggested queries contain terms identical to a term of the plurality of terms in the single search-engine query; forming a plurality of combinations of the individual parsed terms for which one or more suggested queries were identified, the combinations including at least two individual parsed terms, wherein each individual parsed term of the plurality of combinations is identical to a term in the single search-engine query; for each of the plurality of combinations, identifying one or more suggested queries associated with the combination, wherein the one or more suggested queries contain terms identical to terms of the plurality of terms in the single search-engine query; scoring (1) each of the one or more suggested queries identified for each of the individual parsed terms and (2) each of the one or more suggested queries identified for each of the plurality of combinations, wherein the scoring is based at least in part on a frequency that users have historically associated the respective individual parsed term or the combination of the individual parsed terms with each of the corresponding one or more suggested queries; and identifying a subset of the scored suggested queries as highly scored suggested queries; and providing the highly scored suggested queries as alternatives to the single search-engine query, wherein the provided highly scored suggested queries are associated with web content that relates to the single search-engine query.