Synonym feature enhanced

Does your site use acronyms or are there specialized terms that have multple synonyms? The enhanced synonym feature makes it easy to create related-search suggestions for your visitors. For example, if you create "citation" as a synonym for "ticket", then a search for "parking ticket" will suggest a related search of "parking citation" and a search for "parking citation" will suggest "parking ticket".

Synonyms can be phrases as well. With "IT" as a synonym for "information technology", a search for "IT department" will suggest "information technology department". To read more about synonyms, see the Search Guide section on Search Options.

Domain names added to Activity Report

The Search Activity report for an index includes the IP addresses from which searches originated. In the dynamic activity reports, the domain name is now shown for most IP addresses. The domain name is retrieved using the Domain Name Service (DNS). Not all IP addresses have an associated domain name; the domain for those addresses is displayed as "<unknown>".

Most Popular Searches

You can now display the most popular searches made on your search index. The new "gethistory" command returns a table of up to 100 search terms. (Twenty is the default, but there is an option to set the number displayed.) For more details, see the Search Guide section on Activity Reports.

Filter search results by file type

Does your site mix HTML, PDF, and word processing documents? If so, you might be interested in a new filtering option we're testing. When you add "/type" to your search URL, the search output will include an option to filter the output by file type, for example, just showing matching HTML documents. Read more about file-type filtering in the Search Guide.