Last updated: 3 Jun 2026

Fix issues with external search engines

There’s internal guidance on working with external search engines like Bing or Google.

More in the Search on GOV.UK section

Learn

• GOV.UK Search: Introduction and overview
• GOV.UK Site search alerts and monitoring
• GOV.UK Site search: How it works
• GOV.UK's sitemap

How to...

• Add a best bet to site search
• Add a new field to an elasticsearch document type
• Boost or demote a document in site search
• Clear the Redis cache for site search
• Debug documents showing incorrectly in site search
• Debug issues in elasticsearch
• Debug issues with Discovery Engine
• Delete a document from Discovery Engine
• Fix out-of-date search indices
• Increase logging to debug site search
• Investigate when someone says search is down
• Prevent a page being returned in search results
• Prevent an unhelpful autocomplete suggestion
• Reindex an Elasticsearch index
• Resync content in Discovery Engine