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Search Settings

• Stopwords are words removed from search results.
• The system automatically includes common stopwords such as "and," "the," and "or."
• Stopwords can be edited to include industry-specific words or adjectives like "cheap".
• Synonyms link words together with single or bidirectional connections.
• Synonyms can be edited.
• Search term redirects let administrators specify search terms that redirect to an internal or external URL. For example, the search term "customer portal" can be redirected to the website's sign-in page.
• Boosting and Burying can be used to influence the ranking of particular product searches in search results.
• Partial match settings can be configured to include possibly relevant results for multi-term searches.
• Fuzzy search/Misspellings settings can be used to determine how many identical characters the search needs to match a word.
• Search history allows administrators to set a limit for how many past searches users can see before they start typing in the search bar.
• Stemming is an algorithm that helps customers find products using different word forms.
• Autocorrect and DidYouMean are features that offer corrections or suggestions to the user.
• Autocomplete allows users to immediately see results for products, categories, and content as they are typing.
• Filtered Search Results allow customers to narrow the number of results shown.
• Special Characters can be included in search results if the "Search Non-AlphaNumeric Characters" setting is enabled.

General Search Settings

• Attribute Filters control whether attribute values are displayed as facets.
• Show Attributes on Search controls how to search results facets are displayed.
• Search History determines whether users will see their previous searches when they click on the search box and nothing is in it. The Search History Limit refers to the number of previous searches displayed to the user.
• Search Non-Alphanumeric determines whether to include or exclude non-alphanumeric characters in search results.
• Log Product Search Queries allows product search queries to be included in the Application Logs.
• Maximum Attribute Facets determines the total number of attribute values that can be displayed in the product list.
• Stopword Mode determines which list of common words to exclude from search queries.
• Website Specific Attributes controls how attribute types are faceted based on website settings.
• Search Provider Name displays the current provider of search services.

Search Index Settings

• Stored Procedure for Product Search Index defines what stored procedure is used to add extra searchable data to the product search index.
• Rebuild Batch Size for Indexing determines the number of records to send to search in each request during indexing.
• Concurrent Requests for Indexing determines the number of concurrent requests made to search during indexing.
• Enable Ngram determines whether to index product numbers and manufacturer item values using ngram indexing.
• Minimum Ngram Length refers to the smallest number of characters of ngram segments to be indexed.
• Maximum Ngram Length refers to the largest number of characters of ngram segments to be indexed.
• Enable Product Number Tiebreaker determines whether to sort product search returns by Product number when the relevance score is identical.
• Enable Force Merge determines whether to perform a force merge after building indexes.

Search Suggestions

• Enable Search Suggestions determines whether AutoCorrect and DidYouMean can be used on the website.
• Enable AutoCorrect determines whether to use the AutoCorrect function to automatically correct a search query.
• AutoCorrect Threshold sets the minimum confidence level for a word or phrase to be automatically corrected.
• Exclude Part Number from AutoCorrect determines whether exact matches of a part number will be excluded from AutoCorrect function.
• Enable DidYouMean determines whether the DidYouMean function offers suggestions for search queries.
• DidYouMean Threshold sets the minimum confidence level for a word or phrase to be suggested for correction by the DidYouMean function.
• Max Edits sets a maximum number of characters that can be changed on a word to be considered as a suggestion.
• Max Errors refers to the maximum number of errors that can be corrected when generating suggestions.

This quiz covers key concepts relevant to search settings, including stopwords, synonyms, search term redirects, and more. It helps participants understand how these elements can enhance search functionality and improve the user experience. Test your knowledge on the configuration and implementation of these features.