27. The system of claim 21 , wherein the object types include object types corresponding to structured and unstructured objects.
21. A system, including a processor and memory, for providing guided navigation across different object types of result objects, including: a first computer system that provides a search request; and a second computer system that: generates search results based on the search request, the search results including result objects, retrieved in response to the search request, the result objects comprising the different object types, and including a database object and an unstructured object, creates a metadata database, by: defining a number of the object types; defining a number of generic attributes associated with the object types, configuring the metadata database based on the defined number of object types and generic attributes; and defining metadata, for each generic attribute of each object type, that maps an individual attribute of the object type to the corresponding generic attribute; accesses the metadata database to obtain the metadata; normalizes the result objects based on the accessed metadata, wherein the accessed metadata is associated with the generic attributes related to each of the object type, the accessed metadata including a mapping of one of a plurality of generic attributes to both the database object and the unstructured object, and generates guided navigation results across the different object types of the result objects based on the normalization.