Change default search settings?

Question

Is it possible for me to change search to always search at the site level, regardless of where I am in the community? 
 
 What I mean by this is: 
 
 If I search on the home page of the community, it searches the entire community regardless of groups. This is what I want. The user will find content from everywhere. 
 If I search on a group, it searches just the group I'm in unless I tell it to look at the entire community. I'd prefer it always look at the entire community, unless the user swaps it to search just the group.

Can this be done? 
 
 Thanks!

Ben Tiedt · Accepted Answer

To exclude specific content from being searchable, you can go to Administration > Site > Search, go to the "Include" tab, and uncheck content you don't want to be searchable. 
 For example, disabling comments would exclude comments from search results. Note that comments and forum threads/replies are different content types, so disabling comments will not affect forum content.

Kevin Cunningham · Answer

The recommendation of upgrading is preferred due to additional enhancements and fixes as well as the fact these are removed from the index altogether (perf), but you can force a condition on all queries that removes comments. 
 For banner you can append ' -type:comment' on ~line 18 in searchquery.jsm. 
 
 For advanced search, edit Search Result widget ~line 182 to '$searchQuery.Add("Query", "$query -type:comment")'. 
 
 When you do upgrade just remove these edits.

Change default search settings?

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