Integrating Online Search Results and Social Networks

A server system, comprising one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the server system to:

• receive a search query from a first user;
• identify a social network set of search results that (i) matches the search query and (ii) satisfies a social network criteria for the first user, wherein:
• the social network criteria is satisfied for a respective search result when the respective search result is annotated by a second user, distinct from the first user, represented by one or more author identifiers, and
• at least one author identifier of the one or more author identifiers represents the second user and is associated, in a social network application, with a first candidate identifier associated with the first user;
• identify a particular social network application on which the first user and the second user are potentially connected;
• and
• format for concurrent presentation to the first user:
• (i) a search result, in the social network set of search results, published on the particular social network application by the second user, and
• (ii) information identifying the particular social network application.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium,

• storing one or more programs for execution by one or more processors of a server system, the one or more programs including instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the server system to:
• receive a search query from a first user;
• identify a social network set of search results that (i) matches the search query and (ii) satisfies a social network criteria for the first user, wherein:
• the social network criteria is satisfied for a respective search result when the respective search result is annotated by a second user, distinct from the first user, represented by one or more author identifiers, and
• at least one author identifier of the one or more author identifiers represents the second user and is associated, in a social network application, with a first candidate identifier associated with the first user;
• identify a particular social network application on which the first user and the second user are potentially connected;
• and
• format for concurrent presentation to the first user:
• (i) a search result, in the social network set of search results, published on the particular social network application by the second user, and
• (ii) information identifying the particular social network application.