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title: Get started with Coveo-powered search pages
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# Get started with Coveo-powered search pages
Most Coveo-powered search pages built with the [Atomic library](https://docs.coveo.com/en/lcdf0264/) are fundamentally similar.
They typically consist of a search bar, a result list, and some [facets](https://docs.coveo.com/en/198/).
This page summarizes the features you can leverage and how you can get the most out of your Coveo-powered search page.

## Where to start?

![A typical Coveo-powered search page](https://docs.coveo.com/en/assets/images/coveo-platform/search-where-to-start.png)

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|Enter keywords or [expressions](#query-syntax-overview) in the box, and then click the search button or hit `Enter` to get results.

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|[Review your search results.](#search-results)

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|[Use the facets to refine your results.](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1571/)
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## Query syntax overview

The following table summarizes the various ways you can make more precise [queries](https://docs.coveo.com/en/231/).
The [query syntax](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1552/) is especially useful when you want to leverage the [metadata](https://docs.coveo.com/en/218/) that the [Coveo Platform](https://docs.coveo.com/en/186/) makes searchable.
For more information, see [Search prefixes and operators](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1814/).

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| Example | Items returned

| `+work`
| Items in which `work` appears.
Items in which `work` doesn't appear, but that contain words sharing the same stem, such as `workload`, `working`, and `workforce`, [aren't returned in the search results](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1815/).

| `"one flew over the cuckoo's nest"`
| Items containing this [exact phrase](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1686/).

| `from:alice to:john`
| [Emails of which the `from` field contains `alice` and the `to` field contains `john`](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1814#email-operators).

| `@author=paul @title="annual report"`
| Items for which the `author` and `title` [fields match the specified content](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1814#comparison-operators).

| `@date>today-7d`
| Items for which the date in the `date` field is more recent than the [date calculated from the `today-7d` expression](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1814#datetime-operators) (that is, seven days ago).

| `(report OR status) NEAR:10 financial`
| Items containing the keywords matching the logic specified by the [operators](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1814#boolean-operators) (`AND`, `OR`, `NOT`, `NEAR`) and optionally parenthesis.
That is, items in which `report` or `status` appears within 10 words of the word `financial`.

| `gr?y color`
| Items containing either `gray` or `grey`, as `?` acts as a [wildcard](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1580/).
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## Search results

![Features around your Coveo search results](https://docs.coveo.com/en/assets/images/coveo-platform/search-results.png)

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|Number of results on the current page and in total.

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|Facet values selected.

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|Click **Clear** to reset all facet selections.

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|Select **Relevance** or **Most recent** to change the search result sorting.
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## Search result templates

Each search interface includes several search result templates that are each optimized to show the most significant [metadata](https://docs.coveo.com/en/218/) of a given type of [item](https://docs.coveo.com/en/210/).
The following example shows a YouTube video search result.

![Parts of a Coveo facet](https://docs.coveo.com/en/assets/images/coveo-platform/search-result-template.png)

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|Item type tag

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|Icon for YouTube items

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|Video title

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|Video description excerpt

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|YouTube video [metadata](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1640#about-mappings)
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## Search result quick view

![Clicking quick view in a Coveo search page](https://docs.coveo.com/en/assets/images/index-content/quick-view.png)

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|Click the Quick view button for a search result you want to review.

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|Click the title to open the item in its native application.
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