Meta Platforms, Inc.
Context-based search suggestions on online social networks

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, an indication that the first user has accessed a query field. The method also includes determining one or more content objects viewed by the first user in a current view session, accessing terms associated with one or more of the content objects, and ranking the terms based at least on a social-graph affinity of the first user with respect to the term. The method also includes sending, to the client system for display, instructions for generating a suggested-queries interface responsive to the indication the first user has accessed the query field, the suggested-queries interface including one or more suggested queries corresponding to one or more terms having a ranking greater than a threshold rank, respectively.