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Search Experience Optimization TBB (deprecated)

The Search Experience Optimization Template Building Block (TBB) implements Search functionality in webpages. As of release 9.0, this function is deprecated.

The Search Experience Optimization Template Building Block (TBB) inserts code in your webpages to implement Search functionality, which is to find items based on search terms (or synonyms of search terms).

The following table describes the TBB attributes.

AttributeDescription
Search Type*Specify a type of search:
  • parameter—retrieves the search terms entered by the user from the URL query string.

    Specify the name of the query string parameter in which you pass search terms in the Query string parameter attribute.

  • referrer—uses the search terms entered in a search engine to search for content items.
  • keyword—uses the search terms specified in the webpage.

    To implement a keyword search you need to add code to your published webpages to pass the search term values to Experience Optimization.

Query string parameter

When the value of Search Type is parameter, enter the name of the URL parameter from which Experience Optimization retrieves the search terms. For example, enter q if the URL is google.com/q=example.