Interactive search results page

Abstract

Described herein are various technologies pertaining to presenting search results to a user, wherein the search results are messages generated by way of social networking applications. An interactive graphical object is presented together with retrieved messages, and messages are filtered responsive to interactions with the interactive graphical object. Additionally, a graphical object that is indicative of credibility of a message is presented together with the message.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computing system comprising:
 a processor; and   memory storing a social networking application, wherein the social networking application, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform acts comprising:
 receiving social networking content, wherein the social networking content is to be presented in a feed on a display of a client computing device for review by a user of the social networking application, wherein the client computing device is in network communication with the computing system, and further wherein the social networking content has data assigned thereto that indicates that the social networking content is credible; and 
 responsive to receiving the social networking content, causing the social networking content and a graphical object to be presented in the feed on the display of the client computing device, wherein the graphical object is displayed based upon the data assigned thereto that indicates that the social networking content is credible, and further wherein the graphical object indicates that the social networking content is credible. 
   
     
     
         2 . The computing system of  claim 1 , wherein the data is assigned to the social networking content based upon an identity of a publisher of the social networking content. 
     
     
         3 . The computing system of  claim 1 , the acts further comprising:
 computing a score for the social networking content based upon a feature associated with the social networking content, wherein the score indicates that the social networking content is credible, and further wherein the data is assigned to the social networking content based upon the score.   
     
     
         4 . The computing system of  claim 3 , wherein the social networking content is a message broadcasting application, and further wherein the feature is a number of followers of an author of the social networking content. 
     
     
         5 . The computing system of  claim 3 , the acts further comprising:
 receiving a query from the client computing device;   responsive to receiving the query, identifying the social networking content based upon the query, wherein the score for the social networking content is computed based upon a topic assigned to the query.   
     
     
         6 . The computing system of  claim 5 , wherein feature is a number of messages published by the author by way of the social networking application that are assigned the topic. 
     
     
         7 . The computing system of  claim 3 , wherein the feature is a number of times that users of the social networking application shared, by way of the social networking application, other social networking content authored by an author of the social networking content. 
     
     
         8 . The computing system of  claim 3 , wherein the feature comprises reviews of the author set forth by users of the social networking application. 
     
     
         9 . The computing system of  claim 1 , wherein the data is assigned to the social networking content based upon a number of articles identified as being authored by an author of the social networking content on a web page that is external to the social networking application. 
     
     
         10 . The computing system of  claim 1 , wherein the data is assigned to the social networking content based upon an indication that the social networking application has authenticated an author of the social networking content. 
     
     
         11 . The computing system of  claim 1 , the acts further comprising:
 receiving second social networking content, wherein the second social networking content is to be presented in the feed on the display of the client computing device for review by the user, wherein the second social networking content has second data assigned thereto that indicates that the second social networking content lacks credibility; and   responsive to receiving the second social networking content, causing the second social networking content and a second graphical object to be presented in the feed on the display of the client computing device, wherein the second graphical object is displayed based upon the second data assigned thereto that indicates that the second social networking content lacks credibility, and further wherein the second graphical object indicates that the second social networking content lacks credibility.   
     
     
         12 . The computing system of  claim 1 , wherein the graphical object is caused to be displayed on the display of the client computing device responsive to the client computing device detecting that a pointer is being hovered over the social networking content. 
     
     
         13 . A computing system comprising:
 a processor; and   memory storing a social networking application, wherein the social networking application, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform acts comprising:
 receiving social networking content, wherein the social networking content is to be presented in a feed on a display of a client computing device for review by a user of the social networking application, wherein the client computing device is in network communication with the computing system; 
 computing a score for the social networking content based upon a feature associated with the social networking content, wherein the score indicates that the social networking content lacks credibility; and 
 subsequent to computing the score for the social networking content, causing the social networking content and a graphical object to be presented in the feed on the display of the client computing device, wherein the graphical object is based upon the score, and further wherein the graphical object indicates that the social networking content lacks credibility. 
   
     
     
         14 . The computing system of  claim 13 , the acts further comprising:
 receiving second social networking content, wherein the second social networking content is to be presented in the feed on the display of the client computing device for review by the user of the social networking application;   computing a second score for the social networking content based upon a second feature of the social networking content, wherein the second score indicates that the second social networking content is credible; and   subsequent to computing the second score for the second social networking content, causing the second social networking content and a second graphical object to be presented in the feed on the display of the client computing device, wherein the second graphical object is based upon the second score, and further wherein the second graphical object indicates that the second social networking is credible.   
     
     
         15 . The computing system of  claim 13 , wherein the social networking application is a message broadcasting application. 
     
     
         16 . The computing system of  claim 13 , wherein the feature is a number of times that users of the social networking application shared, by way of the social networking application, other social networking content authored by an author of the social networking content. 
     
     
         17 . The computing system of  claim 13 , wherein the feature comprises reviews of the author set forth by users of the social networking application. 
     
     
         18 . The computing system of  claim 13 , wherein the feature is a number of articles identified as being authored by an author of the social networking content on a web page that is external to the social networking application. 
     
     
         19 . A method performed by a computing system that executes a social networking application, the method comprising:
 receiving first social networking content, wherein the social networking content is to be presented in a feed of the social networking application on a display of a client computing device for review by a user of the social networking application, wherein the client computing device is in network communication with the computing system, and further wherein the first social networking content has first data assigned thereto that indicates that the first social networking content is credible;   responsive to receiving the first social networking content, causing the first social networking content and a first graphical object to be presented in the feed on the display of the client computing device, wherein the first graphical object is displayed based upon the first data assigned thereto that indicates that the first social networking content is credible, and further wherein the first graphical object indicates that the first social networking content is credible;   receiving second social networking content, wherein the second social networking content is to be presented in the feed on the display of the client computing device for review by the user, wherein the second social networking content has second data assigned thereto that indicates that the second social networking content lacks credibility; and   responsive to receiving the second social networking content, causing the second social networking content and a second graphical object to be presented in the feed on the display of the client computing device, wherein the second graphical object is displayed based upon the second data assigned thereto that indicates that the second social networking content lacks credibility, and further wherein the second graphical object indicates that the second social networking content lacks credibility.   
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 19 , further comprising:
 computing a first score for the first social networking content based upon a first feature associated with the first social networking content, wherein the first data is assigned to the first social networking content based upon the first score; and   computing a second score for the second social networking content based upon a second feature associated with the second social networking content, wherein the second data is assigned to the second social networking content based upon the second score.