Search Query Interactions 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 of a first user of an online social network, a structured query comprising references to one or more selected objects associated with the online social network;
• generate a query command based on the structured query, wherein the query command comprises an inner query constraint and an outer query constraint;
• identify a first set of objects matching the inner query constraint and at least in part matching the outer query constraint;
• identify a second set of objects matching the outer query constraint;
• and
• generate one or more search results based on the first and second sets of objects, wherein each search result corresponds to an object of the plurality of objects.

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 of a first user of an online social network, a structured query comprising references to one or more selected objects associated with the online social network;
• generate a query command based on the structured query, wherein the query command comprises an inner query constraint and an outer query constraint;
• identify a first set of objects matching the inner query constraint and at least in part matching the outer query constraint;
• identify a second set of objects matching the outer query constraint;
• and
• generate one or more search results based on the first and second sets of objects, wherein each search result corresponds to an object of the plurality of objects.