Personalizing default search queries on online social networks

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

• score a first set of content objects of a plurality of content objects of an online social network based on one or more user-engagement factors;
• identify one or more related content objects, wherein each related content objects is connected within the online social network to one or more content objects of the first set of content objects having a score greater than a threshold score;
• generate a plurality of structured queries that each comprise references to one or more content objects of the plurality of content objects, wherein at least one of the structured queries is a personalized query comprising a reference to at least one of the related content objects;
• and
• send, to a client device of a user, instructions for presenting one or more of the generated structured queries to the user for display on an interface currently accessed by the user, wherein at least one of the sent structured queries is a personalized query.

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:
• score a first set of content objects of a plurality of content objects of an online social network based on one or more user-engagement factors;
• identify one or more related content objects, wherein each related content objects is connected within the online social network to one or more content objects of the first set of content objects having a score greater than a threshold score;
• generate a plurality of structured queries that each comprise references to one or more content objects of the plurality of content objects, wherein at least one of the structured queries is a personalized query comprising a reference to at least one of the related content objects;
• and
• send, to a client device of a user, instructions for presenting one or more of the generated structured queries to the user for display on an interface currently accessed by the user, wherein at least one of the sent structured queries is a personalized query.