Search Experience Overview

Site Search > Search Experience > Overview

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The SearchStax Site Search solution has an easy-to-use interface for updating, enhancing and managing the site search experience for your website.

• Results Configuration – lets you manage how Site Search will present search results.
  • Results and Display – choose which data fields will be returned in the search results.
  • Faceting – drill down to better focus the search.
  • Sorting – lets the user reorder the results in multiple ways.
• Basic Relevance – provides an interface to manage stopwords, synonyms and spellcheck for your search experience
  • Stopwords – words to remove from the query because they dilute the relevance scores.
  • Synonyms – adds synonyms to the query to broaden the search.
  • Spell Check – Avoid “no results” by looking for similar query terms in the index.
• Relevance Modeling – lets you define a Relevance Model to set up the behavior of your search experience using the following features:
  • Search Fields – identify the fields that will be used to determine the search results.
  • Global Filters – create Include and Exclude filters to partition your index and focus your search results on relevant results.
  • Ranking – use the sliders to determine which fields or calculated fields are emphasized in the search results.
  • Rules – modify the search results with Rules to finetune the search results.
  • Promotions – create internal or external promotions to promote specific content to the top of the search results.