Meta Platforms, Inc.
Search query interactions

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query comprising one or more n-grams, generating a plurality of query commands based on a parsing of the query input, wherein each query command comprises an inner query constraint and an outer query constraint, scoring the query commands based at least in part on a number of objects matching the inner query constraint of the respective query command, selecting a first query command based at least in part on the respective scores of the query commands, and executing the first query command to identify a plurality of objects based on: (1) a first set of objects matching the first inner query constraint and at least in part matching the first outer query constraint, and (2) a second set of objects matching the first outer query constraint.