9. A system, comprising: one or more computers configured to perform operations comprising: clustering a plurality of first documents into one or more first document groups, wherein each of the one or more first document groups is associated with a respective author proper name; after clustering the plurality of first documents into the one or more first document groups: receiving author information from an author; generating a query that specifies a particular name of the author and one or more items of the author information received from the author; generating a result list of one or more documents that satisfy the query, the documents being ranked according to a document rank; ranking the one or more first document groups based on how many documents in the result list are included in each of the one or more first document groups, the ranking favoring first document groups having more documents from the result list over first document groups having fewer document from the result list; and providing data describing the one or more first document groups in an order according to the ranking for selection by the author for inclusion in an author profile for the author that identifies documents classified as being authored by the author.
9. A system, comprising: one or more computers configured to perform operations comprising: clustering a plurality of first documents into one or more first document groups, wherein each of the one or more first document groups is associated with a respective author proper name; after clustering the plurality of first documents into the one or more first document groups: receiving author information from an author; generating a query that specifies a particular name of the author and one or more items of the author information received from the author; generating a result list of one or more documents that satisfy the query, the documents being ranked according to a document rank; ranking the one or more first document groups based on how many documents in the result list are included in each of the one or more first document groups, the ranking favoring first document groups having more documents from the result list over first document groups having fewer document from the result list; and providing data describing the one or more first document groups in an order according to the ranking for selection by the author for inclusion in an author profile for the author that identifies documents classified as being authored by the author. 16. The system of claim 9 , wherein the first documents comprise one or more resources from a social network that are associated with a first author proper name in the social network.