13. The system of claim 8 , the search results presentation comprising at least first and second presentation areas, the first presentation area is for use in presenting the one or more top search result items and the second presentation area is for use in presenting one or more of the unselected search result items.
8. A system comprising: at least one computing device, each computing device comprising a processor and a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the stored program logic comprising: receiving logic executed by the processor for receiving an electronic messaging search request to search at least one electronic data store comprising different types of items including a message item type, the search request comprising a user's search query; identifying logic executed by the processor for identifying a plurality of search intents for the search query using the search query, each search intent corresponding to an item type; generating logic executed by the processor for generating a plurality of search result lists by performing a plurality of searches of the at least one electronic data store, each search of the plurality of searches generating a search result list of items having the item type corresponding to a search intent of the plurality of search intents and identifying a relevance score for each search result item in the search intent's search result list, the search result item's relevance score indicating the search result item's relevance to the search query; generating logic executed by the processor for generating, for each search intent of the plurality of search intents, a search intent score using the search intent's search result list; generating logic executed by the processor for generating a plurality of candidate scores, each candidate score corresponding to a search result item included in a search result list of the plurality of search result lists, each search result item's candidate score is generated using the search result item's relevance score and the search intent score of the search intent corresponding to the search result item's search result list; selecting logic executed by the processor for selecting one or more top search result items using the generated candidate scores, each of the one or more top search result items having a better candidate score than unselected search result items; and generating logic executed by the processor for generating a search results presentation for display at the user's client device, the search results presentation comprising a presentation of the one or more top search result items.