Meta-Web
In one aspect, a system includes an information server, operable to perform operations comprising: receiving a search query from a user device; receiving search results responsive to the search query from a search engine; determining from a registry that user annotations or other metadata are associated with the received search results; ordering the search results according to their relevance, where the relevance is determined based at least in part on the user annotations or other metadata in the registry; generating a search results page including the ordered search results and an annotation tool, wherein the annotation tool provides functions that allow a user of the user device to provide annotations for a particular search result, and wherein the annotation tool receives annotations provided by the user for later use in generating search results pages; and transmitting the search results page to the user device for presentation.
1 . (canceled)
2 . A method comprising:
receiving a search query from a user of a user device;
accessing data that identifies one or more personal friends of the user;
obtaining search results for the search query provided by a search engine, wherein each of the search results identifies a respective responsive document;
determining, from annotations associated with the responsive documents in a registry, that at least some of the responsive documents have been endorsed by personal friends of the user;
determining a relevancy of each of the responsive documents based in part on the endorsements by the personal friends; and
providing the search results for presentation in an order that is based at least in part on the relevancies of the responsive documents.
3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an input from the user of the user device endorsing a first responsive document identified by a first search result; and
associating an annotation with the first responsive document in the registry identifying that the first responsive document has been personally endorsed by the user.
4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an input from a user identifying a first search result that identifies a first responsive document that has been personally endorsed by a first personal friend of the user; and
providing, for presentation to the user, information identifying the first personal friend of the user that personally endorsed the first responsive document.
5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing for presentation to the user information explaining the relevancy of each of the responsive documents.
6 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the information explaining the relevancy of each of the responsive documents comprises information obtained from the annotations associated with the responsive documents in the registry.
7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an input from the user annotating a first responsive document with a comment; and
storing the comment as an annotation associated with the first responsive document in the registry.
8 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
receiving a subsequent search query from the user;
obtaining search results for the subsequent search query provided by the search engine, wherein a first search result for the subsequent search query identifies the first responsive document;
determining, from annotations associated with the first responsive document in the registry, that the user has previously commented on the first responsive document; and
providing the comment for presentation to the user with the first search result that identifies the first responsive document.
9 . A system comprising:
an information server, operable to perform operations comprising:
receiving a search query from a user of a user device;
accessing data that identifies one or more personal friends of the user;
obtaining search results for the search query provided by a search engine, wherein each of the search results identifies a respective responsive document;
determining, from annotations associated with the responsive documents in a registry, that at least some of the responsive documents have been endorsed by personal friends of the user;
determining a relevancy of each of the responsive documents based in part on the endorsements by the personal friends; and
providing the search results for presentation in an order that is based at least in part on the relevancies of the responsive documents.
10 . The system of claim 8 , the operations further comprising:
receiving an input from the user of the user device endorsing a first responsive document identified by a first search result; and
associating an annotation with the first responsive document in the registry identifying that the first responsive document has been personally endorsed by the user.
11 . The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:
receiving an input from a user identifying a first search result that identifies a first responsive document that has been personally endorsed by a first personal friend of the user; and
providing, for presentation to the user, information identifying the first personal friend of the user that personally endorsed the first responsive document.
12 . The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:
providing for presentation to the user information explaining the relevancy of each of the responsive documents.
13 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the information explaining the relevancy of each of the responsive documents comprises information obtained from the annotations associated with the responsive documents in the registry.
14 . The system of claim 8 , the operations further comprising:
receiving an input from the user annotating a first responsive document with a comment; and
storing the comment as an annotation associated with the first responsive document in the registry.
15 . The system of claim 13 , the operations further comprising:
receiving a subsequent search query from the user;
obtaining search results for the subsequent search query provided by the search engine, wherein a first search result for the subsequent search query identifies the first responsive document;
determining, from annotations associated with the first responsive document in the registry, that the user has previously commented on the first responsive document; and
providing the comment for presentation to the user with the first search result that identifies the first responsive document.