Findability → Known-Item Search, Discoverability → Exploratory Search?
I keep confusing findability and discoverability. It seems that findability is often equated to known-item search, and discoverability to exploratory search.
Known-item search is compatible with “instant search”, aka search-as-you-type interfaces. Exploratory search is compatible with “autocomplete” (incl. re-spelling, infix matching, synonym substitution, etc.) interfaces.
Recommendation can be a part of exploratory search, i.e. bundled in response to a user’s pulling for relevant information. It can also be pushed independently of deliberately registered search intent – via notifications, email digests, etc.
Does the latter activity – the pushy one – “count” for discoverability? I can imagine such activity being framed as periodic re-running of an exploratory-search query on behalf of a user, with query-independent factors for retrieval and ranking being varied over time.