santapaws - 12:16 pm on Aug 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

except that when you have seperate tabs for videos, books, images etc, and then you still return these elements within the general search it goes beyond guessing what the user really wants. If the user already has clear tabs to narrow there search if their INTENT is a video, or their INTENT is a book etc and they choose not to select those specific options then you would not have these elements so prominent and so prolific within the first page results. I understand the difference between universal blending and results that are a "second guess" of user intent but if you stand back and look at the overall serps the mission statment to me is not focussed on user intent but on user suggestions and a wish to deliberately broaden the nature of results.