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Control Panel - Search Settings

This section lets you fine-tune how searching works within your store

Search All Products New	This controls how the All Products search functions. In prior versions this has always defaulted to Blended. Now you can set the All Products search to query against one of your store categories instead. You can also set the associated Browse Node to something other than what was used for your store category.
Search Combo	If set to Yes, any user-entered search term(s) will be combined with the category-level keywords OR Site Default Keyword (if defined). If set to No, then only the user-entered search term(s) will be used. See our documentation for an in-depth look at how this works. NOTE: Setting this to Yes means you will see more focused search results, but it could also mean you lose out on sales if someone wants to search more generally.
Search Recovery	This is the maximum number of recovery search attempts made when keyword combinations return no results from Amazon. See our documentation for an in-depth look at how this works. If this option is set to 0, when no results are found, no recovery searches will take place.
Search Priority	If set to 'User keyword trumps your keywords', in search recovery attempts user keywords will be used before your keywords. If 'Your keywords trump user keyword' is selected, the inverse is true. See our documentation for an in-depth look at how this works.
Item Pages	Enter the maximum number of Item page links to be listed from 1 to 400 (10 items per page). Set to 1 if you don't want the page links displayed. NOTE: Number of page links may be less than your specified number depending on results returned.
Marketplace Pages	Enter the maximum number of Marketplace page links to be listed from 1 to 100 (10 offers per page). Set to 1 if you don't want the page links displayed. NOTE: Number of page links may be less than your specified number depending on results returned.
Review Pages	Enter the maximum number of Review page links to be listed from 1 to 999 (5 reviews per page). Set to 1 if you don't want the page links displayed. NOTE: Number of page links may be less than your specified number depending on results returned.

Here is a chart of how these parameters work in conjunction with each other and what would actually get sent to Amazon in search queries based on how the parameters are sent and which recovery attempt is being made. If results are found at any step along the way, no more search recovery attempts are made and the results are displayed. The assumption is that if a search recovery attempt is only using your Site Default Keyword or Category Level Keyword that results will be found (you would test this when you setup your categories):

K = User Enter Keyword
SDK = Site Default Keyword
CLK = Category Level Keyword

Search Combo: On Search Priority: User Keywords Trump Your Keywords
Search Recovery:	K: horse SDK: cows CLK: frogs	K: horse SDK: cows CLK: N/A	K: horse SDK: N/A CLK: frogs	K: horse SDK: N/A CLK: N/A
Attempt #1	horse frogs	horse cows	horse frogs	horse
Attempt #2	horse cows	horse	horse
Attempt #3	horse	cows	frogs
Attempt #4	frogs

Search Combo: On Search Priority: Your Keywords Trump User Keywords
Search Recovery:	K: horse SDK: cows CLK: frogs	K: horse SDK: cows CLK: N/A	K: horse SDK: N/A CLK: frogs	K: horse SDK: N/A CLK: N/A
Attempt #1	horse frogs	horse cows	horse frogs	horse
Attempt #2	horse cows	cows	frogs
Attempt #3	frogs

Search Combo: Off Search Priority: N/A
Search Recovery:	K: horse SDK: cows CLK: frogs	K: horse SDK: cows CLK: N/A	K: horse SDK: N/A CLK: frogs	K: horse SDK: N/A CLK: N/A
Attempt #1	horse	horse	horse	horse
Attempt #2	frogs	cows	frogs

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