I want to stop Search and Navigation from searching on the URL field of the index, as right now, if you search for the site name (which is part of the domain name), it returns every page in the index, which is not the desired effect.

My site domain is for example acme-group.com, so any search for "acme group" or just "group" returns every page in the index, as all of them have a "SearchHitUrl" field with the domain name in it.

I have checked specific results JSON in the CMS, and the only instance of the word "acme" and/or "group" is in the URL field.

I have tried setting some Search conventions, clearing the index, and rebuilding, but I keep getting the same results.

        SearchClient.Instance.Conventions
            .ForInstancesOf<ISearchContent>()
            .ExcludeField(i => i.SearchHitUrl);

or

        SearchClient.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<BaseContentPage>()
            .ExcludeField(i => i.URLSegment)
            .ExcludeField(i => i.ExternalURL)
            .ExcludeField(i => i.LinkURL)
            .ExcludeField(i => i.StaticLinkURL)
            .ExcludeField(i => i.StaticLinkURL)
            .ExcludeField(i => (i as ISearchContent).SearchHitUrl)
            .ExcludeField("SearchHitUrl");

I am guessing I can't fully exclude this field, as otherwise, you would not be able to link to a result, but I just don't want to search upon that field.

My search query is currently:

  var query = _client.Search<BaseContentPage>(_contentLanguageAccessor.Language.GetLanguage())
            .For(model.SearchText)
            .InAllField();