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How to configure K2 Articles for Search

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10 years 6 months ago - 10 years 6 months ago #131812 by Mr_Anonymous
How to configure K2 Articles for Search was created by Mr_Anonymous
I have enabled K2's com_search plugin and all seems fine. However, I am trying to understand how to configure K2 articles for search. I have searched for hours trying to understand this with com_search but there isint much info on this. What I am wondering is:

1) When a user types in whatever keywords, does the search plugin looks for the keywords in meta descriptions only or even titles, tags, content body, etc.?

2) If I want an article to appear in search, do I need to enter that keyword as K2 tags? How does that work exactly?

3) Now a days most of the search keywords are generic and not specific title. For example, how can I change a type in my ford capri? . If someone searches something like this and the article doesnt exist, do I need to add all of these keywords variations as tags for that article so most of the keyword variations are covered and they show in search results?

Look, after using Google with their awesome algorithm com_search looks really bad for a normal internet user. Some people say some articles dont appear in search when they should unless the words matches. But I think com_search does give us a powerful feature if we can manually configure the articles ourself so we have full control over it. But I just dont know how with the above questions in mind. Hopefully you can share some tips that worked for you please...

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10 years 6 months ago #131813 by Krikor Boghossian
Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: How to configure K2 Articles for Search
K2 uses mysql full text search which includes a lot of stopwords.
dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-stopwords.html

If you want a different behaviour (eg, search in categories or do not include stopwords), you can use Google Search.

There is a setting for this located in K2's parameters.

The only possible drawback to this is that you should style the results to match your styles.

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