Search

Search is an optional core module turned off by default.

When your site grows beyond a few pages, people want to search your site to find the right pages. A shopping oriented site would use a structured product oriented search. For everyone else, there is the Drupal search module.

Settings

Number of items to index per cron run: 100
Minimum word length to index: 3

Content ranking

The following numbers control which properties the content search should favor when ordering the results. Higher numbers mean more influence, zero means the property is ignored. Changing these numbers does not require the search index to be rebuilt. Changes take effect immediately.
Keyword relevance: 5
Recently posted: 5
Number of comments: 5
Number of views: 5

Indexing

The indexing is performed in cron and cron can be run manually from Administer » Reports » Status report. You can force the reindexing of your side from a button in the Search settings page.

Search block

The Search module creates a search block you can control in Administer » Site building » Blocks. This site has the search block in the left side sidebar after the navigation entries.

By default, the Search block displays a heading of Search then text containing Search this site:. You can remove the redundant Search block heading by editing the block configuration.