May 2019 Release Notes

Improvements

• Sitelimit parameter support
  • Now our customers can specify that a search box only returns results from a particular part of their site. For example, for site www.example.gov, you want a search box on your site to only return results from www.example.gov/history. By adding the appropriate URL parameter and value, you can limit results: &sitelimit=www.example.gov/history.
  • You can also specify multiple values for the sitelimit. See this example from the National Park Service.
  • Keep in mind that the sitelimit must be for a domain within your site’s index. That is, if the Domains list includes www.example.gov, the sitelimit parameter cannot be www.example.gov/history.
  • This feature is an alternative to our Collections feature.
• Service upgrades
  • We continued to upgrade components of our service, including ElasticSearch, Rails, and Ruby to improve the overall performance of our indexing system.

Fixes

• Highlighting bug
  • We fixed a bug that prevented highlighting for exact, phrased queries on sites indexed by Search.gov. Here’s an example of it working correctly now.