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Hey all,

new to EE.  Trying to integrate search into the current site.  Trying to find out how to go about in doing so.

saw this post: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/80070/#402569 and created this just to test out.  Unfortunately, got “our search did not return any results.” error.

{exp:search:simple_form search_in="everywhere"}
<label for=“keywords”>Search:</label>

<input type=“text” name=“keywords” id=“keywords” value=”” size=“18” maxlength=“100” /></p>
<input type=“submit” value=“submit” class=“submit” /></p>

{/exp:search:simple_form}

Question:  does EE only search channels or can it search pages too?  Since I haven’t got into creating channels just yet.  Since most of the site is just start HTML & Embeds & ee tags.  Brochure style.

how do I get search results from the pages I know have that keyword.  thanks

EE only searches channel entries (and Titles), where custom fields are marked as searchable. So long as “Pages” content is made up from channels + custom fields they are searchable as well.

So if you have no channels, custom fields or entry data it won’t find anything.

Lastly you need to specify in the search tag which channels are searcahble and provide a template to display the results, eg

{exp:search:simple_form search_in=“everywhere” channel="your_channel|another_channel" 
result_page="news/search"}