Presenting social network connections on a search engine results page

One or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method for adding a social network connection to a user's social network from a search engine results page, the method comprising:

• receiving a search query from a user;
• determining that at least a portion of the received search query is a name query;
• determining that data associated with one or more social network connections of the user is available;
• determining that the name query matches the data associated with the one or more social network connections of the user;
• presenting information derived from the data associated with the one or more social network connections of the user and pertaining to the one or more social network connections of the user that matches the name query in association with a search engine results page;
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• presenting, in association with the search engine results page, a selectable option for the user to add at least one of the one or more social network connections of the user to the user's social network as a first degree connection.

One or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method for sending electronic messages to social network connections of a user from search engine results page, the electronic messages appearing to the receiving social network connections as though it was sent from a social networking domain, the method comprising:

• receiving a search query from a user;
• determining that at least a portion of the received search query is a name query;
• determining that data associated with one or more social network connections of the user is available;
• determining that the name query matches the data associated with the one or more social network connections of the user;
• presenting information derived from the data associated with the one or more social network connections of the user and pertaining to the one or more social network connections of the user that matches the name query in association with a search engine results page;
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• presenting, in association with the search engine results page, a selectable option for the user to send an electronic message to at least one of the one or more social network connections of the user.