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How Name Variant Searches Might Work

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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