Search client context on online social networks

One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

• receive, from a client system, a search request from a search client associated with a user-interface element of a page, wherein the search request identifies:
• a query inputted by a first user at the search client,
• a type of the page associated with the search client,
• a social context of the page associated with the search client, and
• a threshold number of search results for display;
• identify one or more entities matching the query;
• rank each of the identified entities based at least in part on the type of the page associated with the search client and the social context of the page associated with the search client;
• and
• send, to the client system, instructions for presenting a search-results interface comprising the threshold number of search results corresponding to the threshold number of top ranking identified entities.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to:
• receive, from a client system, a search request from a search client associated with a user-interface element of a page, wherein the search request identifies:
• a query inputted by a first user at the search client,
• a type of the page associated with the search client,
• a social context of the page associated with the search client, and
• a threshold number of search results for display;
• identify one or more entities matching the query;
• rank each of the identified entities based at least in part on the type of the page associated with the search client and the social context of the page associated with the search client;
• and
• send, to the client system, instructions for presenting a search-results interface comprising the threshold number of search results corresponding to the threshold number of top ranking identified entities.