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Algolia Highlighting and snippeting

Documents highlighting and snippeting as search UI patterns for showing why a result matched a query, with matched words, highlight attributes, snippets, performance limits, pre/post tags, and sanitization warnings.

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Search result highlighting Choose search result highlighting when returned results need visible evidence of where the submitted query matched. A highlight represents the submitted query or configured highlight query, not a decorative emphasis chosen independently from search matching. Algolia documents highlighting and snippeting for explaining why a result matched, including matched words, snippets, pre/post tags, performance limits, and sanitization.

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