Best Bets display at the top of search results because it has a higher boost weight.
## Apply Best Bets
Use `ISearch
` or `ITypeSearch
` in the `EPiServer.Find
` namespace to apply Best Bets to the search results, as shown in the following examples.
Note that `GetContentResult()
` does not return external best bets because it only returns `IContent
`, which external best bets do not. External best bets are of type `ExternalUrlBestBets
`. To work around this, implement your own `GetContentResult(). Do a .select(x => x.ContentLink).GetResult()
` then load the content by that content reference.
### Unified Search
You can apply an overload that accepts a boost index (`ApplyBestBets(double? boost)
`), which affects the influence of a matching Best Bets on the search result score (default is 1000).
### Typed Search
You can also apply Best Bets to arbitrary types you have indexed, as shown in the following example.
## Style Best Bets search results
To style Best Bets search results, first use `IsBestBetStyle()
` to see whether a search hit is a Best Bet. Then, use `HasBestBetStyle()
` to see whether the Best Best is shown using its style. `IsBestBetStyle()
` and `HasBestBetStyle()
` are available for `UnifiedSearchHit
`.
For `HasBestBetStyle()
` to return true, you must select the **Show the best bet with its own style** check box on the Optimizely Search & Navigation admin UI. Otherwise, the function returns false, indicating the style is not added to the listing.