Search results page descriptions are all the same

Published by: jane 2010-03-18

Hello,

I have a website using the zoom search engine (professional), and the search results are not displaying correctly. While the search IS working, and is pulling up the correct pages, the quick blurb it shows of the page content is always the same. Unfortunately this is because the first item of real text in every page is a newsletter piece (the same newsetter piece).

Now, i know it's possible to tell zoom not to index that newsletter piece, but we want that to be searchable as well. Why is zoom not skipping ahead to show exactly where in the page the search term is found?

If my description is not clear enough I will gladly post screen shots.

Thank you.

-Nick Dykzeul

Used & Out of Print Books: Search Tips - Barnes & Noble::
If no books are found with all the words, the search engine will try to find books with The search results page displays information about the title(s) that
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Wikia Search - Help - Search Result Tools::
The title of the page will be whatever the search is, and there will not be a description The Recent Changes tab shows all the alterations made on search results pages.
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Are you using the Javascript version? This does not support context description (displaying the surrounding content where the word was found) due to the technical limitations of the scripting platform.

If you are not using the Javascript version, then you may have disabled context descriptions in your configuration window (under the "Results layout" tab).

Why Google Is Tweaking The Look Of Its Search Results ::
Same goes for The Noisy Channel, which complains that the list of related searches prominently in the upper-left-hand column of every search-results page.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/24/google-ad-targeting-complex-searchnology-paidcontent.htmlHOME

When context descriptions are disabled, and a meta description is not found for the page, Zoom will retrieve the first portion of the page's content as a static description. This sounds like what you are seeing here.

You'll need to make sure you are using either PHP, ASP, or CGI, and that you have "context descriptions" enabled, to get the result that you're after.

Thanks a lot for the help. We are using the javascript version, so we'll have to switch that over.

Thanks again!

-Nick