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Best practice for avoiding duplicate results

When searching, you may experience the same content appearing more than once in the results. Since a crawler is unable to index the same URL twice, this will always be due to the same content existing on multiple URLs. That is, of course, unless you have two crawlers that index . . . Read more

Why is this file not indexed?

Once a crawler has crawled the defined domain(s), you may experience a specific file not being added to the search index. This will typically be due to one of the following reasons:

What is Web Content Highlighter?

Web Content Highlighter is a feature that highlights the search query on the specific landing page the visitor has selected from the search results. This makes it easier for the visitor to find exactly what they were searching for. This way, the feature helps to optimize usability. Just like all . . . Read more

What is smart crawling?

Smart crawling allows the crawler to run more frequently, leveraging the XML sitemap(s) of your site. It uses the lastmod timestamps in the sitemap to detect if a page was updated since the last crawl. This allows the crawler to only re-crawl recently modified pages, saving time and resources when . . . Read more

How to change default translations

Default translations are the small pieces of text that appear in the template of the website, such as “did you mean..” or “your search for …”. These are automatically translated into the language that the search is set up for. However, it is possible to rephrase or change the translation. . . . Read more

What are search categories?

The “Category” field is a standard field in the crawler, and can be set up to identify a specific type of content when crawling. This can be useful when implementing the template as it becomes very easy to implement a filter on said category. The example above is just one . . . Read more

Setting up Cludo for intranets

You may wish to implement Cludo on an intranet solution that is otherwise closed to the public. For this, you will want to consider how the crawler should access the site as well as how secure the implementation needs to be. Ways to allow crawling behind login In order to . . . Read more

How to style voice search

Once Voice Search is implemented on a website, it is possible to use the following CSS selectors and cludoSettings to style how elements should appear on the website. Disable voice search animation Voice icon button Voice icon Voice icon SVG path Active voice search icon

How to implement Voice Search

Voice Search allows your visitors to enter a search term by voice. To enable the Voice Search feature, add the following value to the cludoSettings object of your search script: For context, here’s an example of what the full code snippet could look like: Note: The Voice Search feature is . . . Read more

How to set up related searches

The related searches features shows a list of related search terms, based on the current search term. Clicks on related searches can be seen in the analytics view. To implement the related search module on the search results page, The following HTML must be inserted: The related features must also . . . Read more