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Search results layout This set of options allows you to modify the appearance of the search results. You can select or disable the elements that should be displayed per search result. Note the Preview pane at the bottom of the window gives you a representation of what your results may look like with your current selected settings. Result number: Displays the rank number of the search result, with the most relevant page being numbered 1. Title of page: Displays the link to the result with the page title as the link text. When disabled, the link text will simply be the URL. Meta description: Displays the Meta description when available. Image: Allows and icon or thumbnail to appear alongside search results. Images will only appear for files which have a ZOOMIMAGE tag specified or an icon or thumbnail configured for that file extension. See "Icons and Thumbnails" for more information. Context description: Displays the surrounding words from the content of the page where the searched word was found. Note that this is not available when Page Content is not being indexed. It is also not available for the Javascript version due to technical constraints with the scripting language. Context size: The number of words surrounding the searched word that should be displayed as part of the context description. Terms matched: The number of user searched terms that were matched on this page. Score: A score representing the relevance of the page found, depending on the number of words matched on the page, and where the word was found on that page (can be configured with Word boosting parameters set in the Indexing Options tab). Date: Displays the date for the page. This is determined by the Last Modified date and time for that particular file. When this information is not available, no date is displayed. Note that pages that are dynamically generated by server-side scripts (e.g. PHP or ASP pages) often have no date associated with them unless they are scripted to return a date. See "Specifying a last-modified date for your web pages" for more information. Highlighting options Words matched in search results This option enables the highlighting of keywords found in the search results. You can customize the appearance of this highlighting by changing the CSS of the search page template. See “Fonts and colours” below. Jump to match and highlight within document This option enables support for highlighting to occur on the actual page of your website when you click on a search result. However, this requires you to add some Javascript to each page of your site where you want this feature to take effect. It will highlight the word that the user was looking for in the search engine, as well as scroll the window down to the first appearance of the word. For instructions on how to setup this feature, see "Enable jump to match and highlight within document". Fonts and colours You can change the fonts, text colours, and text styles of your search results by editing the CSS styles defined at the top of the template HTML file. Clicking on the Edit HTML template button will open up the search template source file in your default HTML editor. See "How do I customize the look of my search page?" for more information and a definition of the CSS styles you can use to change the appearance of the search results. |