1189725 - prototype some Fancy Suggestions

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

 **Requirements:**

- Using Yahoo as the first supported search provider for 'fancy suggestions', integrate into Yahoo's suggestions to quickly display some 'rich' suggestions as opposed to just text  

- Implementation could then be suggested (haha) to other search providers with whom we have relationships  

**User Stories:**

- As a user, I want to search more effortlessly and have the results I'm looking for show up faster, especially on mobile so I don't have to type much.  

  - AC: Relevant rich suggestions are displayed at the same speed as text-based suggestions for the user to tap on for more information  

**Additional Info:**

- It is expected that there will be some client-side work to implement a search provider's way of providing fancy suggestions  

- Speed is the biggest concern and will likely be the focus for Acceptance of this feature.

Comment 1

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

NI-ing Kev to get us to the next step.

Comment 2

[Anthony Lam (:antlam) Find me, @antlam on Slack!]

Attachment: prev_smartsuggest_2.png

Attaching last mock we came up with in the workshop for context.

Comment 3

[Kev Needham [:kev]]

Waiting on a couple procedural items to clear with other side. Hope to have an update tomorrow, and will keep the NI flag set.

Comment 4

[Anthony Lam (:antlam) Find me, @antlam on Slack!]

Any updates on this Kev?

Comment 5

[Kev Needham [:kev]]

Yup, waiting on availability from people. Hope to have something set up late this week early next. Will send invites via email no later than wed.

Comment 6

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

please be sure to include me on that invite when you hear back. Thank you

Comment 7

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

poke poke?

Comment 8

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

I understand that kev has transitioned roles. Barbara, who's handling mobile search going forward?

Comment 9

[Barbara Bermes [:barbara] - NI please!]

I didn't know that -- let me check with Kar (NI her)

Comment 10

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

ally - he's still our prime. I'll send you a note with info we discussed (on this particular topic) in today's product meeting.

Comment 11

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

CCing Nick Chapman, who might have thoughts around some small search experiments we could add to Fancy Suggestions

Comment 12

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

This bug is morphing into a experimental prototype bug because things remain too fuzzy. Margaret is fond of ' a prototype is worth a thousand meetings', so let's see how many thousands of meetings we can spare ourselves. :)

I understand that research points to weather as being a prominent thing people search for that could land itself to richer suggestions.

Comment 13

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Anthony added a mock for Weather, which looks pretty good, but if we are going to create a small API for a general "smart suggestion", we might want a different approach, especially to just get started.

What if we create an entire row dedicated to the suggestion, not part of the current SearchEngineRow? We could expect a service to return: Title, URL, Excerpt and Image - but the Excerpt and Image might be treated as optional. What would such a row look like?

Comment 14

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