14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of objects includes a first object having a first type and obtained based on the first implicit query using a first search algorithm, and a second object having a second type different from the first type and obtained based on the first implicit query using a second search algorithm.
11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a computer processor, the instructions comprising: instructions for receiving a first character of a query associated with a user of a social networking system in response to the user entering the first character into a text area displayed in a client device; instructions for obtaining a first result set comprising a plurality of objects from an object store of the social networking system that match the first character of the query; instructions for ordering at least a plurality of the objects of the first result set based at least in part on measures of affinities of the user for the objects, the measures of affinities of the user for the objects based at least in part on information about the user stored by the social networking system; instructions for providing at least a portion of the first result set to the client device; instructions for receiving a second character of the query in response to the user entering an the second character into the text area; instructions for obtaining a second result set of objects from the object store that match the first and second characters of the query; and instructions for providing at least a portion of the second result set to the client device.