Patent 9015152 was granted and assigned to Google on April, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a set of search results. The set of search results is responsive to a search query received from a user. The method includes determining whether the search query is a navigational query or an exploratory query. The method also includes determining a number of search results to be presented to the user depending on whether the search query is determined to be a navigational query or an exploratory query.