10. The graphical user interface of claim 8 , further comprising a presentation of an identification of a second individual also associated with the user via the social networking service, the second individual not being responsive to the user's search; wherein both the presentation of the identification of the first individual and the presentation of the second individual each, individually comprise messaging user interface elements to allow the user to specify to which of the first individual or the second individual to direct the user-authored content.
8. A graphical user interface, generated on a display device by a computing device, enabling social network interaction while presenting search results, the user interface comprising: a presentation of multiple document search results identifying a first set of documents responsive to a user's search; a presentation of an identification of a first individual responsive to the user's search, the first individual being associated with the user via an external social networking service; user-authored content generated by the user utilizing the user interface, the user-authored content to be directed to the social networking service; a search context, automatically generated in the user-authored content, the search context being utilizable by recipients of the search context to subsequently perform, after receiving the search context, an equivalent search to the user's search and receive identical document search results to the multiple document search results presented to the user, a further search context, also generated in the user-authored content, the further search context comprising at least one of the multiple document search results; and individual selection elements for at least some of the multiple document search results by which the user can specify the inclusion of individual ones of the multiple document search results in the user-authored content.