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The SearchStax Site Search solution offers two features where the system modifies an incoming query to steer the user toward better results: synonyms and related searches. Both features recognize an… Continue reading Synonyms vs. Related Searches

The SearchStax Site Search Synonyms feature lets users upload a TXT synonyms file. Synonyms expand queries by inserting one or more equivalent words/phrases into the query before searching. TXT Upload… Continue reading Synonyms: Upload Format

A promotion is an absolute boost to one or more result-items, moving them to the top of the results list. It is triggered by a keyword or phrase in the… Continue reading Promotions: Indexed vs. External

“Boosts” can be a loaded topic among Solr users. The basic idea is to raise the relevancy score of a document in some circumstance. The details of Solr boosting can… Continue reading Boosts: Ranking vs. Rules

The SearchStax Site Search solution’s Smart Ranking feature uses Artificial Intelligence to reorder search results to better match the intent of the user’s query. Smart Reranking reorders the final results… Continue reading Smart Ranking

The SearchStax Site Search solution’s Crawler lets us set up custom index fields to contain content from various HTML elements in the target documents. See Crawler for more information. The… Continue reading Field Types

The SearchStax Site Search solution honors the search industry’s use of stopwords to help focus website search results. Stopwords are common words that should be ignored when evaluating a query… Continue reading Why Stopwords?

The SearchStax Site Search solution honors both the Solr stopwords feature and its Boolean query feature. This can sometimes be confusing, so we have prepared some examples here. In the… Continue reading Boolean Search vs. Stopwords

The SearchStax Site Search solution’s users often use the Hit-Highlighting feature to emphasize keywords-in-context in the Results Fields. The system attempts to show the user where the search keyword(s) appeared… Continue reading Hit-Highlighting Snippets

The SearchStax Site Search solution’s Crawler add-on explores the pages of a website beginning at a start URL. It then follows the embedded links in the pages rather than following… Continue reading Crawler Exclusions