Facebook, Inc.

Brian Piepgrass Hale

Thomas Giovanni Carriero

Rohit Dhawan

Nicolas Andrij Bushak

Siddharth Kar

In one embodiment, a computing device of a network environment may receive a search query comprising location parameters. The computing device may identify locations matching the search query. The computing device may access a particular record corresponding to the location, wherein the record indicates actions by users performed on the network environment with respect to the location. The computing device may determine, for each identified location, one or more counts of one or more types of actions. The computing device may generate a search-results page comprising references corresponding to the identified locations. Each reference may display the determined counts for the respective identified location. The references may be listed in ranked order based at least in part on their respective counts. The computing device may send to a client device of a user instructions for presenting the search-results page to the user.

Social discovery and ranking of pages

In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph with a plurality of user nodes and a plurality of location nodes, receives a search query with location parameters, identifies a set of location nodes based on the search query, and determines a value for each location nodes in the set based on the edges connected to the location nodes in the social graph.

In one embodiment, a social graph associated with a social networking system may comprise user nodes, concept nodes, meta nodes, and edges between the nodes. A meta node may be connected by an edge to each of a set of concept nodes sharing attributes. A request associated with a first user may be received, wherein a user node for the first user is associated with a first one of the concept nodes. A meta node connected to the first concept node may be identified. Second concept nodes may be identified, wherein each of the second concept nodes is connected to the identified meta node. A value may be determined for each of the second concept nodes. Finally, information may be presented to the first user, wherein the information is related to at least one of the second concept nodes based on respective values for the second concept nodes.

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Brian Piepgrass Hale