Question

Currently I have a search set up on our Sharepoint 2010 server. The search works fine on the first try however after one search (aka the results page) the scope is defaulted to “this site:search”.

I would like to modify the scope options on this page however I cannot seem to locate where to do so?

I would like the same scopes to display on both my results page and original search page. In summary the problem is the search is set up as a separate site and when the results page is displayed the only scope option is this site which esentially has no content. So an added bonus would be to remove the this site option from the page.

For now anyways the search has to stay as a separate site.
Thanks in advance.

UPDATE
In order to allow for additional scopes in the results page you must go to the site settings (as admin) > Search Settings > Site Collection Search Center and Enable Custom Scopes

I still need to know how to default to all site or hide this site search.

Answer 1

Below are the steps I had to take:

1. I had to set the specific search page and edit the web part settings to make sure they do NOT “Use site dropdown mode” or “Use site level defaults”.
2. Set the dropdown mode of that webpart to be “Show, do not include contextual scopes, and default to ‘s’ URL parameter”.
3. In the miscellaneous section set the target search results page url to the results page in my search center. IE (/Search/Pages/results.aspx) in my case.
4. Add a search box to the results page with the same drop down mode as in step 2 above. I suggest navigating to your empty results page and then site actions > edit. Add the web part as normal.
5. Make sure you have done the step above by going to (/_layouts/enhancedSearch.aspx ) and setting the url to your search center (/Search/Pages) in my case.