Hi Peter,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply. Kindly please find my response to your inquiries below:

Can you please tell me how I control pagination on search results? Where do I configure how many search results are displayed before pagination occurs?

-> You can change the pagination of search page by:
1. Click Global Configuration>Site>Default list limit

Also, when it says "1 - 1 of 5 results found for "the" I assume the first "1" means the page number? Is there a way to change this to just display number of results e.g. "1 of 5 results found for "the""?

->Actually this inquiry fall under customization, where we do not support any customization as stated in out support policy. However I've tried to give you some quick customization for that.
Can you download the file attached and paste it into folder:
JOOMLA_FOLDER/components/com_easyblog/themes/wireframe/search/default.php
and change the language string in folder:
JOOMLA_FOLDER/language/xx-XX/xx-XX.com_easyblog.ini
and change the string below:

COM_EASYBLOG_SEARCH_RESULTS_TOTAL_RESULT="%1$s of <b>%2$s</b> results found for <b>"_QQ_"%4$s"_QQ_"</b> total result - %3$s"

Hope this helps.
Cheers!

Ops, here is the file