Indexed Search

1.1. Introduction

1.1.1. What does it do?

The Indexed Search Engine provides two major elements to TYPO3:

1. Indexing: An indexing engine which indexes TYPO3 pages on-the-fly as they are rendered by TYPO3's frontend. Indexing a page means that all words from the page (or specifically defined areas on the page) are registered, counted, weighted and finally inserted into a database table of words. Then another table will be filled with relation records between the word table and the page. This is the basic idea.

2. Searching: A plugin you can insert on your website which allows website users to search for information on your website. By searching the plugin first looks in the word-table if the word exist and if it does all pages which has a relation to that word will be considered for the search result display. The search results are ordered based on factors like where on the page the word was found or the frequency of the word on the page.

This is an example of how the search interface on a website looks: