SearchDocs.rst

Searching Documentation

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Read the Docs uses :doc:`/server-side-search` to power our search. This guide explains how to add a "search as you type" feature to your documentation, and how to use advanced query syntax to get more accurate results.

You can find information on the search architecture and how we index documents in our :doc:`Search </development/search>` docs.

Table of contents

• Search query syntax
  • Exact phrase search
  • Exact phrase search with slop value
  • Prefix query
  • Fuzzy query
  • Build complex queries

Search query syntax

Read the Docs uses the Simple Query String feature from Elasticsearch. This means that as the search query becomes more complex, the results yielded become more specific.

Exact phrase search