How to show each page only once on search results?

[kaycebasques]

If you search for pw_unit_test on https://pigweed.dev/search.html you get results like this:

This happens because we have structured our changelog like this:

• 20240226
  • ...
  • pw_unit_test
  • ...
• 20240212
  • ...
  • pw_unit_test
  • ...

20240226 is an H2 containing the updates published on 2024 Feb 26. The pw_unit_test nested as a child is an H3 containing the updates for that module. Etc.

Is there a way to configure the local search engine to only show each page once?

[picnixz]

AFAIK, no. But there are a bunch of PRs trying to fix the search engine so maybe they can give you better results.

[jayaddison]

I think that this problem is a symptom of a (recently-resolved) bug #11943 : in Sphinx versions up-to-and-including 7.2.6, identical contextual snippet appeared despite search results linking to multiple matches within a document.

[jayaddison]

See also bugreport #11961 about search result duplicates - with two possible pull requests currently available (#11942, #12047) that perform corresponding de-duplication. Feedback on either of those would be much appreciated.