Topic 

Description 

Optimizing Search Performance 

Techniques to use for faster searching. 

Limiting Searches 

AutoStopLimit, MaxFilesToRetrieve, and TimeoutSeconds search settings. 

dtsSearchDelayDocInfo 

Search flag to delay reading of document information records after a search. 

dtsSearchWantHitDetails 

Search flag to get details on how search terms were matched in a document. 

dtsSearchWantHitsByWord 

Search flag to get a list of the words or phrases matched in a document. 

Synonym search settings 

Summary
To enable synonym searching, combine the dtsSearchSynonyms flag with one or more of: dtsSearchUserSynonyms, dtsSearchWordNetSynonyms, dtsSearchWordNetRelated, or dtsSearchExternalSynonyms to specify the type of synonym expansion to apply.
Remarks
You can enable synonym searching for all words in a request or you can enable synonym searching selectively by adding the & character after certain words in a request. Example: fast& w/5 search
Search flags control where dtSearch looks for synonyms for words in a search request. The four types of synonym expansion are: user synonyms, WordNet synonyms, WordNet related words, and external synonyms.
The User Thesaurus is a user-defined set... more