Patent Document ID: 20120290562
Application ID: 13554869
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method of searching for objects of a social networking system, comprising: receiving a query associated with a user of a social networking system; performing a plurality of search algorithms using the query; obtaining a result set from each of the search algorithms, wherein each result set comprises a set of objects from an object store of the social networking system that match the query; aggregating the result sets from the search algorithms into a combined result set; ordering at least a plurality of the objects of the combined result set based at least in part on measures of affinities of the user for the objects, an affinity of the user for an object comprising at least one from a group consisting of: a distance on a social graph between the user and the object, and a similarity between the user and the object; and providing at least a portion of the combined result set to the client device in response to the query.