Ranking of Place-Entities 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 the online social network, comparison information associated with two or more particular place-entities, each particular place-entity being associated with a particular score on a first scoring scale and a first feature;
• rank a scored list of place-entities associated with the online social network based in part on the comparison information, wherein each place-entity of the scored list is associated with a score on the first scoring scale, and wherein the place-entities of the scored list comprise at least the two or more particular place-entities;
• and
• determine a place-classifier algorithm based at least in part on the ranked list of place-entities and one or more features associated with each place-entity of the ranked list, wherein the one or more features comprises at least the first feature.

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 the online social network, comparison information associated with two or more particular place-entities, each particular place-entity being associated with a particular score on a first scoring scale and a first feature;
• rank a scored list of place-entities associated with the online social network based in part on the comparison information, wherein each place-entity of the scored list is associated with a score on the first scoring scale, and wherein the place-entities of the scored list comprise at least the two or more particular place-entities;
• and
• determine a place-classifier algorithm based at least in part on the ranked list of place-entities and one or more features associated with each place-entity of the ranked list, wherein the one or more features comprises at least the first feature.