Beginner's Guide

Figure 3: Autocompletion
Figure 4: Stemming
You have several self explaining settings available to use predefined searches.
You find a summary in the Joomla documentation
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REMOVING THE CLASSIC JOOMLA SEARCH
If you decided to use Smart Search, you can remove the classic Joomla search:
deactivate or delete all module of the type search (Extensions -> Modules -> Filter for type search)
deactivate or delete all plug-ins of the type search (Extensions -> Plug-Ins -> Filter for type search)
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http://docs.joomla.org/Smart_Search_configuration_options