Answer to Question #285777 in Web Development for Shanu

Question

What is the Search engine customization and Search Index?

Answer 1

Search engine customization is changing the look and feel of your search engine:

1. From the control panel, select the search engine you want to edit.
2. Click Look and feel from the menu on the left and then click the Layout tab.
3. Select the layout you want to use for your search engine. ...
4. Click Save & Get Code and insert the new code into your site.

A search index is a body of structured data that a search engine refers to when looking for results that are relevant to a specific query. Indexes are a critical piece of any search system, since they must be tailored to the specific information retrieval method of the search engine's algorithm.