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Pixaria Gallery includes a powerful search engine that gives visitors to your site many ways to find images in your library. To get the best out of the search engine, you should configure it carefully to ensure smooth operation and to keep searches as fast and efficient as possible.
Some configuration options are not recommended for very large libraries as they can result in slow searches. These options are clearly listed so you can avoid them if you want the fastest possible experience for your visitors.
The default advanced search form offers many different parameters which visitors can use to find images in your library however not all of them may be applicable to your site or you may wish to simplify the form.
Use the checkboxes on the right to select which form items you want to show in the advanced search.
Colour searching only works for images that have been tagged with a key colour on the 'edit image' screen.
Pixaria contains a powerful 'Boolean operator' search system that allows visitors to find images by constructing keyword queries containing 'and', 'or', 'not' commands to include, exclude or require keywords.
By default, the search engine matches keywords from image titles, filenames and captions as well as the special image keywords field but complex searches can take longer to run against all four of these fields. The options on the right allow you to control which image data fields are included in keyword searches.
Unchecking these options will improve the speed of searches on your site.
Here you can configure the default order in which search results are returned, enable logging of search terms and set maximum number of possible search results from a single query.
Reducing the maximum possible number of results from a single search can dramatically improve the performance of searches on your site especially if it gets a lot of traffic. Realistically, users are unlikely to browse through result sets larger than about 2,000 images and should be encouraged to enter more specific search terms.
Reducing this number will improve the speed of searches.