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Single Search Result
Single Search Result with Sitelinks
Are there official terms for these? I know that a "SERP" is Search Results Page, and I'm fairly certain that a single search result is just called a "search result". But what is a search result with Sitelinks called?
As far as I know the official term is just sitelinks. That's what google calls them: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=8523&answer=47334. Also, here is a good article on the topic and they are called sitelinks as well. http://www.click-finders.com/blog/how-to-get-google-sitelinks-on-your-serp-listing/
It's really just called "search result" (the "bundle" without the sitelinks). The sitelinks are a nice feature, a quick introduction to important pages or categories of a site, if the algorithm worked well, but more an addon to the actual search result (you don't search for sitelinks, you search for results - pages).
What's more important is that there is much more than just site links that is "blended" into or is part of the search result, the concept of "Universal Search". Here is a nice summary on Search Engine Land about it. A lot of assets compete for attention, like images, videos, local information, news - and lately author images of the social web.
Which is nice, because being the number one is not so important anymore.
