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Sitefinity CMS Search uses the Publishing system in order to collect data that should be indexed. It registers the SearchIndexOutboundPipe that listens for changes in Sitefinity CMS and pushes them to the search index, using the active Search service.

The following diagram shows how a page content is pushed to the Search service index when the user publishes it. Other content in Sitefinity CMS is indexed in a similar manner. The difference between indexing different content types is that each of them comes from a different InboundPipe.

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CRUD operations for a search index
The sample in this article demonstrates how you can use the API to create, update, and delete a search index and how you can perform a search operation.
Create a custom search service
You can replace the default search service with your custom implementation.
Index external content
Index data items that are managed on external systems.
Create a search index that applies to group of pages
You can create a search index that applies only to a selection of pages under a group page by replacing the default PageInboundPipe with a custom one.
Search with accented characters
Replace the default analyzer used by Lucene search with one that replaces accented characters with the corresponding unaccented ones.
Customize the Lucene search scoring
Sitefinity CMS exposes a mechanism for influencing the Lucene search results via customizing the Lucene search scoring.
Perform search in an index
The sample in this article demonstrates how to perform search in an index.

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