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title: Settings - Search
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can access these settings in the **Settings** application under the **System** -> **Search** category. In this section, you can configure settings related to the [search engine on your websites](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/setting-up-search-on-your-website.md).

| Search                                |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
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| Exclude pages (types) from SQL search | Excludes page types, pages or entire sections of the content tree from the SQL search available in the **Pages** application of the administration interface.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Enable smart search indexing          | Indicates whether the system creates indexing tasks whenever content covered by a search index is created, modified or deleted. Affects both [Azure Search](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/setting-up-search-on-your-website/using-azure-cognitive-search.md) and [locally stored indexes](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/setting-up-search-on-your-website/using-locally-stored-search-indexes.md).<br>This setting is only available if _(global)_ is selected in the **Site** drop-down list, not for individual sites.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Allowed attachment file types         | Specifies which file types are included when [searching page attachments](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/setting-up-search-on-your-website/searching-attachment-files.md). The smart search indexes the content of attachments along with the related pages.<br>Only applies to indexes of the **Pages** type that have the **Include attachment content option** enabled for their allowed content (both [Azure Search indexes](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/setting-up-search-on-your-website/using-azure-cognitive-search/creating-azure-search-indexes.md) and [local indexes](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/setting-up-search-on-your-website/using-locally-stored-search-indexes/creating-local-search-indexes/defining-local-page-indexes.md)).<br>Note: If no checkboxes are selected, all supported types of attachment files are indexed. |