8. A method comprising: ranking a plurality of search results that are retrieved in response to a search query based on a relevance of each of the plurality of search results with respect to the search query to provide a plurality of rankings of the plurality of respective search results, a relatively greater ranking corresponding to a relatively greater relevance with respect to the search query, a relatively lower ranking corresponding to a relatively lower relevance with respect to the search query; determining an initial subset of the plurality of search results, each search result in the initial subset having a ranking that exceeds a ranking threshold; determining that the initial subset includes a plurality of social search results, each social search result indicating information from a user profile on a social networking domain, the plurality of social search results including at least a first subset and a second subset, the first subset including at least one first social search result having at least one respective first ranking of the plurality of rankings, the second subset including at least one second social search result having at least one respective second ranking of the plurality of rankings; determining that the at least one first ranking and the at least one second ranking are not consecutive; and increasing the at least one second ranking to be consecutive with the at least one first ranking in response to determining that the at least one first ranking and the at least one second ranking are not consecutive.
11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising: configuring the initial subset of the plurality of search results to cause the plurality of social search results to be displayed in a grid that includes a plurality of columns.