Suggested Keywords for Searching News-Related Content on Online Social Networks

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a text query to search for news-posts of the online social network. The method includes parsing the text query to identify one or more n-grams. The method includes searching an index of keyword phrases to identify one or more keyword phrases matching one or more of the n-grams of the text query. Each of the identified keyword phrases is news-related. The method includes calculating a news-score for each of the identified keyword phrases. The method includes generating one or more suggested queries. Each suggested query includes one or more n-grams identified form the text query and one or more identified keyword phrases having a news-score greater than a threshold news-score. The method includes sending one or more of the suggested queries to search for news-posts of the online social network.