Search Results Show domain account and Masterpage in the summary fields

Question

I have a internet publishing site using MOSS 2007 / SP1 / December updates.

In the search results, I get different pages using same layout/content type within the same sub site. In some pages the summary field show the domain account of the author of the page (creator) as well as the Layout used, in others (same layout/content type and same sub site) this summary shows normal content.

The image below shows a sample.

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My question: Why is this happening? and most importantly, how to prevent it?

Answer 1

There seems to be a fairly acceptable workaround for this here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointsearch/thread/750564ce-97b7-40ea-9636-7f7223749913.

Basically you can edit the XSLT to only display the HITHIGHLIGHTEDSUMMARY contents if it does not contain certain strings ("_catalogs", AD Domain name).

You may be able to take this even further by checking for these strings and then stripping everything out before ".aspx".

Answer 2

Make sure that the ViewFormPagesLockdown features is activated on the site collections. This feature reduced the access level for limited access. Activate it like this

stsadm -o activatefeature -url <url> -filename ViewFormPagesLockDown\feature.xml

Answer 3

I can't really tell as you've blanked out some of the information, but is the problem that your master page (and possibly page layouts) is appearing in search results, in addition to actual content pages?

If so, you should check the 'Advanced Settings' of the master page gallery and ensure that 'Allow items from this document library to appear in search results' is set to 'No'. Alternatively a crawl rule in the search configuration should do the same thing.

If this isn't the issue, can you supply more information?