How does the Emovart Search Bar work? – Emovart Docs

Where to Find the Search Bar

Every Emovart site ships with search built in — nothing to install or configure. In the Help Center layout, the search bar sits front and center in the header, right below your site title, so it's the first thing visitors see.

In the Documentation layout, you'll find it in the top bar next to the navigation tabs. In both layouts, visitors can press ⌘K (or Ctrl+K on Windows) to open search from anywhere on the site.

How Search Works

Emovart runs a full-text search across your entire knowledge base: article titles, descriptions, and body content are all indexed. As a visitor types, matching articles appear instantly, so most people find their answer before they've even finished the query.

Search Algorithm Priorities

Not all matches count equally. Results are ranked roughly like this:

Title matches score highest — an article whose title contains the query almost always lands at the top.
Description matches come next. The description is the italic line shown under each article title.
Body matches fill in the rest, ordered by how closely the passage fits the query.

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Matching is case-insensitive and behaves the same everywhere search appears — both layouts and the embedded widget included.

What is Fuzzy Searching?

Nobody types perfectly, so the search bar doesn't expect them to. Fuzzy searching means small typos and near-misses still find the right page: a visitor hunting for "pasword" will still land on your "Password reset" article. Partial words match too — typing "sync" surfaces "Syncing your knowledge base". All of this works automatically; there's nothing for you to switch on.

Optimizing Your Content for Better Search Results

A few writing habits make a big difference to what your readers find:

Give articles clear, descriptive titles that use the words your customers actually type — "Reset your password", not "Account credential recovery".
Write the one-line italic description at the top of every page. It's weighted heavily in ranking and doubles as the preview text in results.
Mention alternative phrasings in the body ("sign in", "log in", "login") so every variant of a query reaches the page.
Split giant catch-all pages into focused articles. One topic per article ranks far better than one page covering ten topics.

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The description is simply the first fully-italic paragraph of your Notion page. Think of it as the article's search snippet and write it accordingly.

Refreshing Search Content

The search index is built from your synced content, not read live from Notion. Whenever your site syncs — via the Resync button in Settings → Help Centers or the automatic periodic resync — the index is rebuilt along with your pages, so search always matches what's published.

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Just shipped an important fix or a brand-new article? Press Resync manually so it becomes searchable right away instead of waiting for the next automatic pass.

Search Intent Analytics

Your visitors' searches are a goldmine: they tell you, in their own words, what people are trying to do. In the console you can review what visitors searched for — including the queries that returned no results at all.

Treat those empty queries as article requests. Write the missing article in Notion, resync, and the exact same search starts succeeding. It's the fastest feedback loop you'll get for growing your knowledge base in the direction your readers actually need.