With federated search, you can find results from multiple sources rather than just one. To the end user, it looks like they are searching in one large source, but in fact they are searching across multiple sources. This is often how large enterprise websites work, such as the leading online shopping sites.

For example, lets say you have three different products ("Acme A", "Acme B", and "Acme C"). You publish an HTML5 Help Center for each product to a different URL. By using federated search, you can let users search all three sites. So if a user is looking at content in the "Acme C" site, they can do a search and get results from the "Acme A" and "Acme B" websites as well as "Acme C".

Federated search means you can provide your users with information from many sources, rather than just one. To the end user, the search looks like it all takes place in one place.

To set up federated search for your Paligo content, you will need to sign up for the Coveo or Swiftype search engine service. When you have a subscription, you can set them up to work with Paligo.

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