Personal knowledge panel interface
View Patent ↗Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing personal knowledge panels. One of the methods includes receiving, at an Internet search system, a search query. Multiple search results identifying Internet resources indexed by the search system that satisfy the query are obtained. If the search query matches a name of a user that submitted the search query, a ranking of one or more of the search results and a personal knowledge panel comprising one or more items of user provided information about the user is provided, wherein the personal knowledge panel includes multiple input fields for updating the user provided information of the knowledge panel. Updated user information that was provided using the input fields of the personal knowledge panel is received, and the updated user information is associated with an account of the user.
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
receiving, at an Internet search system, a search query;
receiving multiple search results, each of the search results identifying an Internet resource indexed by the search system that satisfies the query;
determining that the search query matches a name of a user that submitted the search query;
providing, in response to the search query, a ranking of one or more of the search results and a personal knowledge panel comprising one or more items of user-provided information about the user, wherein the personal knowledge panel includes multiple input fields for updating the user-provided information of the knowledge panel;
receiving updated user information that was provided using the input fields of the personal knowledge panel; and
associating the updated user information with an account of the user.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the personal knowledge panel allows the user to modify the one or more items of user-provided information without the navigating away from a search results page that includes a presentation of the one or more search results.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ranking of the one or more search results is based on information provided in the personal knowledge panel.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
reranking the search results based on the updated user information; and
providing a different ranking of one or more search results based on the updated user information.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing a different ranking of one or more search results based on the updated user information without further input from the user.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, at the Internet search system, a second occurrence of the search query from a second user;
receiving multiple second search results, each of the second search results identifying an Internet resource indexed by the search system that satisfies the query;
determining that the search query matches a name of the user and that the user is a contact of the second user; and
providing to the second user, in response to the search query, a second ranking of the one or more second search results and a second personal knowledge panel comprising one or more items of the updated user information provided by the user.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the second ranking of the one or more second search results is based on the updated user information provided in the second personal knowledge panel.
8. The method of claim 6 , wherein visibility of one or more items of user information in the second personal knowledge panel is based on visibility settings provided by the user.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving updated user information that was provided using the input fields of the personal knowledge panel comprises receiving an indication of visibility that is specific to an item of the updated user information.
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing the received updated user information to one or more other services that each are linked with the account of the user.
11. A system comprising:
one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at an Internet search system, a search query;
receiving multiple search results, each of the search results identifying an Internet resource indexed by the search system that satisfies the query;
determining that the search query matches a name of a user that submitted the search query;
providing, in response to the search query, a ranking of one or more of the search results and a personal knowledge panel comprising one or more items of user-provided information about the user, wherein the personal knowledge panel includes multiple input fields for updating the user-provided information of the knowledge panel;
receiving updated user information that was provided using the input fields of the personal knowledge panel; and
associating the updated user information with an account of the user.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the personal knowledge panel allows the user to modify the one or more items of user-provided information without the navigating away from a search results page that includes a presentation of the one or more search results.
13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the ranking of the one or more search results is based on information provided in the personal knowledge panel.
14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise:
reranking the search results based on the updated user information; and
providing a different ranking of one or more search results based on the updated user information.
15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise providing a different ranking of one or more search results based on the updated user information without further input from the user.
16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving, at the Internet search system, a second occurrence of the search query from a second user;
receiving multiple second search results, each of the second search results identifying an Internet resource indexed by the search system that satisfies the query;
determining that the search query matches a name of the user and that the user is a contact of the second user; and
providing to the second user, in response to the search query, a second ranking of the one or more second search results and a second personal knowledge panel comprising one or more items of the updated user information provided by the user.
17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the second ranking of the one or more second search results is based on the updated user information provided in the second personal knowledge panel.
18. The system of claim 16 , wherein visibility of one or more items of user information in the second personal knowledge panel is based on visibility settings provided by the user.
19. The system of claim 11 , wherein receiving updated user information that was provided using the input fields of the personal knowledge panel comprises receiving an indication of visibility that is specific to an item of the updated user information.
20. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise providing the received updated user information to one or more other services that each are linked with the account of the user.