Providing objective and people results for search

A method of providing search results, the method comprising:

• using a processor to perform acts comprising:
• receiving a query from a user;
• determining that the query is one to be asked to a person in addition to, or instead of, a search engine;
• obtaining objective results from a corpus of information;
• using a social graph to identify one or more people who are friends of said user in said social graph, and who have an aspect of relevance to said query;
• creating person results that comprise said one or more people and, for each of said one or more people, an explanation of each person's relevance to said query;
• and
• providing, to said user, a set of results that comprise said objective results and said person results, each of said person results being actionable to initiate contact between said user and a person identified in a given result.

A system for providing search results, the system comprising:

• a memory;
• a processor;
• and
• a component that is stored in said memory, that executes on said processor, that receives a query from a user, that determines that said query is one to be asked to a person in addition to, or instead of, a search engine, that obtains objective results corresponding to the query from a corpus of information, that identifies one or more people in a social graph whose relationship to said user meets a closeness condition and who have an aspect of relevance to said query, that creates person results that comprise a portion of said one or more people, that creates, for each of said one or more people, an explanation of each person's relevance to said query, and that provides, to said user, a set of results that comprise said objective results and said person results.