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Setting the Summary Text |
The results from a query are returned to the user with a summary (along with several other things, such as the URL, the page's size and which collection it is in). If an indexed page contains a TITLE tag and a "description" meta-tag, these are what will be displayed as the page's summary. If the page does not contain these tags, the indexer will determine the summary on its own. Webpage maintainers who want to control the summaries returned should therefore have appropriate versions of the following lines in every webpage that gets indexed:
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Setting the Summary to be Returned
with Results </TITLE>
<META name="description"
content="How to set the summary on a query result">
</HEAD>
Note that this needs to be done for every page the indexer visits. If a page has already been indexed, the new summary will take effect the next time the indexer visits the page.
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