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Search Experience Administration Best Practices

The following table lists best practices for creating the search experience. For each best practice, the
table gives a reference to a section in this document that describes it, as well as the page in the Admin
Console that you use to accomplish it.

Best Practice

Reference

Admin Console Page

Enable advanced search reporting

“Gathering Information about
the Search Experience” on
page 35

Serving > Front Ends >
Output Format

Allow users to choose search
results by topic

“Using Dynamic Result Clusters
to Narrow Searches” on page 45

Serving > Front Ends >
Output Format

Help user explore search results
by using specific metadata
attributes

“Using Dynamic Navigation to
Help Users Explore Results” on
page 47

Serving > Dynamic
Navigation

Restrict search results by domain
name, language, file type, or meta
tag

“Using Filters to Restrict Search
Results” on page 54

Serving > Front Ends >
Filters

Present recommended links
above search results

“Using KeyMatches to Guide
Users to URLs” on page 41

Serving > Front Ends >
KeyMatch

Add structured, real-time
application data to search results

“Using OneBox Modules to
Integrate Structured Results” on
page 68

Serving > OneBox Modules
and Serving > Front Ends >
OneBox Modules

Enable searching for experts in
your organization

“Providing Expert Search for
Users” on page 51

Social Connect > Expert
Search

Return user profiles along with
ranked search results
(deprecated)

“Using People Search” on
page 52

Return search results from Google
Apps

“Including Content from Google
Apps with Search Results” on
page 21

Cloud Connect > Google
Apps

Provide your own synonyms for
use in query expansion

“Using Query Expansion to
Widen Searches” on page 58

Serving > Query Settings

Set the query expansion policy for
a front end

“Setting the Query Expansion
Policy for a Front End” on
page 63

Serving > Front Ends >
Filters

Install and activate a language
bundle

“Changing Languages for Query
Expansion and Spelling
Suggestions” on page 64

Serving > Language Bundles

Present alternative search terms
above search results

“Using Related Queries to
Suggest Alternative Searches”
on page 43

Serving > Front Ends >
Related Queries

Translate search results into the
user’s language in real time

“Enabling Translation of Search
Results” on page 63

Serving > Front Ends >
Output Format

Show thumbnail images of
documents in search results

“Providing Document Previews”
on page 79

Serving > Document
Preview Module

Prevent specific URLs from
appearing in search results

“Removing URLs from Search
Results” on page 57

Serving > Front Ends >
Remove URLs