Segmenting Your Search Results For Better Search Experiences

Website owners almost always offer a variety of content spread across different areas of their website, or even across multiple websites. The more content a website has, the harder it can be to provide users with an enjoyable and satisfying search experience. Segmenting your search results is a great way to ensure that there is something of value for every visitor. We’ll break down in this blog post what segmented search is, what to consider when designing one, and how you can best leverage it to provide a better user experience.

One of the most challenging aspects of having a good website is having an effective site-search engine on a content-rich website. Most websites have many types of content such as news and articles, products, blog posts, comments, images and videos, testimonials and reviews, and more. Search engines provide one-dimensional results to the user, so sometimes the user will miss out on the other content that is on your website. It can be challenging to provide users with a relevant mix of content, and if successful, it will improve the customer experience, build trust and ultimately increase sales. Other challenges are that users might not get all of the information they want with one search. They might have to search multiple times to get additional information.?

Segmented search is a great way to overcome the challenges listed above. With segmented search, results from specific website areas are displayed in segments for a single search query. Each segment is in a dedicated area containing a list of search results for a particular content type. Instead of one long list of search results, there will be two or more lists. Segmented search also provides the content faster, and displaying all of the content simultaneously, allowing the user to have a better search experience.?

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