It's interesting to see how search engines might handle nicknames and formal names in query results. With the given name "William," Bill Slawski provides the perfect example to explain how a Yahoo
patent application published this past week might work. The application explains how the search engine might expand queries to include nicknames for a person when a given name is used in a query, or
expand a search to include a given name when a nickname is used in a query.
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