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Overview

MySource Matrix possesses a powerful search engine module. It allows full text searching and thesaurus-based searching of content in a website or intranet.
When an asset is added, edited or deleted from the CMS, MySource Matrix updates its searching index to reflect the change. The index provides a map with weighting of search words to the assets that contain those words. This architecture facilitates the following features:

• Searching is fast
  
  
• Searches are real-time (i.e. the index is always up-to-date since it is instantly updated when content is edited)
  
  
• Searches may discover content across many different asset types, such as pages, files and users (NB assets must be registered with the search engine)
  
  
• Searches include metadata
  
  
• Searches support plain text, including any combination of word or number
  
  
• Searches support boolean searching
  
• Indexing includes Word/PDF documents as well as native HTML pages
  
  
• Searches are case insensitive
  
  
• Selective weighting of results (the weighting parameters for each asset may be controlled)
  
  
• Searches may be restricted to certain areas of the site
  
  
• Searches will only display results accessible by the user (results that relate to assets where a user does not have read permission will not be displayed).

Excluding Sections From Indexing

The MySource Matrix Search Manager allows you to exclude sites, sub-sites, site sections or individual pages from being indexed.  You can even specify that particular asset types are excluded, or that page bodycopy is excluded but asset attributes are not.

Relevancy Ranking

MySource Matrix displays results according to relevancy, the algorithm being based on how many times a word appears in the content and where it appears in the content e.g. title or content.  In additon, a system administrator can set the weighting of individual attributes on individual assets or asset types.

Search Within Search

MySource Matrix allows you to define a search within search area in a separate bodycopy asset.  You can then include both a “Search within a Search” and a “New Search” area on your results page, using keywords in the WYSIWYG editor for your Search page.

Best Bets Functionality

MySource Matrix allows you to specify that a particular asset is returned in the same position on every result page displayed. For example, if you always wanted the home page to appear as the first result, you would specify an asset position of 1 for the home page asset. No matter what the search term, the home page always appears as the first result. If no results are returned, company policy is not listed.

Fuzzy Matching

MySource Matrix supports fuzzy matching via a combination of word stemming, exact phrase matching, and Thesaurus searching.

Searching External Repositories

For searching across external repositories, clients have the option to use any third party search engine in conjunction with MySource Matrix.  In a number of circumstances, other Squiz clients have found the need to search across multiple third party web enabled repositories, and have chosen to use search engines such as Encompass, Panoptic and Verity. 

Search Results Presentation

You can fully configure the layout of your search results page using the WYSIWYG editor, and the page will have the site design applied so that the layout and style match that of the site. 
An administrator can define which metadata fields are indexed for searching and the weightings applied to each field. In addition, for each asset being searched, you can adjusting the weighting of the attributes used in indexing.

Structured Taxonomy-Based Searching

MySource Matrix provides the functionality needed to provide alternate category-based browse structures. For example, being able to browse documents by topic, and by document type such as policy, manual, etc.

Search Log Report

MySource Matrix provides a Search Log Report to report on all searches performed on the entire system within a specified period of time. This report can be used to view popular searches on your site, and optimise weightings of assets to ensure better search results.