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Sitecore ships with a set of standard indexes pre-configured which you can extend, or you can define your own. Of the pre-configured, sitecore_master_index & sitecore_web_index are of most interest for your site search. These are the predefined indexes for all of your Sitecore items in the tree ...

Inbound filter is applied when item is added to the search index and allows to specify whether item is included to the index or not. Examples when inbound filter can be used - do not include standard values and previous versions of the item in the index. Inbound filters are set in configuration: ...

Outbound filter can be used to filter the search results. One of the examples of outbound filter usage is removing items which user doesn't have access to from search results. Outbound filters are set in the configuration: <indexing.filterIndex.outbound> <processor type="Sitecore....

By default Sitecore adds all versions of the item to the sitecore_master_index. The drawback of that is that if users are using workflows and adding lots of versions all of them will be added to the search results in the content editor. Configuration: <event name="item:versionAdded" &...