Site search

You might have a website with blog posts, staff bios, product descriptions, upcoming event times. And each section might have specific fields related to the content they store. So when you show search results from all the sections there's usually a field from each that can be used as a title, but not always for the summary (in the search results page). Do you show the bio, the product description? the event description?

And then sometimes people want different content to show differently (product results should have a photo and price, events should show the next date, etc). Which doesn't create a very consistent search page.

The other approach is to do it more like google and have a title and "snippet" of matched keywords and surrounding text from the content that was searched.

It's a issue that has come up a lot of times for custom projects. Another solution we've sometimes done is to have different results grouped by section or tab... Or to have the top 3 results from each section with a link for more.

In any case, I'm talking about searching issue in an abstract sense. Did you have a particular project that you were having a challenge with or were you just curious? We do have the existing multiSearch function which does a lot of the basics.