Topic: Promotional Spotlighting

    
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When the user's attention is proactively guided to a focused set of relevant items -- items that are either within or meaningfully related to a given result set -- both the user and the organization can benefit. "Relevant" items are understood to be of high value or interest based on the user's context (e.g., his profile, history, current search and navigation context, etc.).

Promoting and calling attention to items within a result set can help users rapidly sift through results to see key items and avoid overlooking important results. Promoting and calling attention to related items or information that are not part of a result set but are meaningfully related to the set in some way -- in other words, inviting the user to "see also" --  can facilitate valuable serendipitous discovery.



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Featured Results


Effectively promote and direct the user's attention to relevant and high-value items within a search result set by highlighting items from result lists using salient zones or containers, maximizing discoverability of important items that might otherwise be missed.

Search Results Related Content


Enrich discovery and complement the user's results by directing attention to "sidebar" information assets that are meaningfully related to (but not necessarily part of) a natural search result set.

Mixed Content Results with Spotlights


Help users sift and sort through broad and diverse result sets by spotlighting specific types of high value content in salient zones or containers.