What is an Engine? The engine is at the heart of the search setup. When implementing search on the website, an engine is needed to define which results to present. An engine can be connected to the search index of one or multiple crawlers, for added flexibility. A lot of . . . Read more
What is a crawler? A crawler is usually the first step to creating a functional site search. The crawler is in charge of checking all available pages on the given domain(s) and indexing any pages and files according to the configuration. Once indexed, the pages and files can be searched . . . Read more
What is Voice search? Voice Search will allow your website visitors to search via speech-to-text. This feature adds a microphone icon to your search bar. When clicked, the user will be prompted to record what they wish to search for. When the prompt ends, the search will be initiated. Voice . . . Read more
What is an Audience? The Audiences feature is designed to offer a more personalized search experience for the visitor by adjusting the displayed results based on the known data on the visitor. The visitor data is registered using Google Tag Manager, which in return are turned into “traits”. These traits are used . . . Read more
What are Instant Suggestions? The Instant Suggestions feature allows you to propose popular search terms to the visitor before they start typing. Alongside these terms, which are generated in MyCludo, you can also choose to display Recent searches, allowing the visitor to see their own recent searches if they have . . . Read more
What is Dynamic Re-ranking? Dynamic Re-ranking is a feature that uses two layers of data to improve the ranking of results based on the search term. Both layers use previous search activity and click logs to determine which results were most useful. They apply the same logic to adjust the . . . Read more
What are Boostings? Despite built-in intelligence in Cludo’s algorithm, you may have a need to prioritize certain areas of your site based on various parameters. Boosting gives you control over exactly that. Boostings allow certain results to be ranked higher or lower when they match certain criteria based on static . . . Read more
What are Page Rankings? A page ranking allows you to pin results at the top of the list for specified search terms. Using specific search terms and/or an audience, it is possible to manually select particular results to be shown above the organic list of results. Page Rankings are engine . . . Read more
What are Synonyms? Synonyms allow you to connect two or more search term that cover the same topic, making sure that no matter how your visitors phrase themselves, they will receive relevant results. By setting up synonyms, the group of search terms will be used interchangeably to show search results . . . Read more
What are Misspellings Misspellings allow you to correct specified search terms that are commonly misspelled by visitors and not automatically detected by the search engine. By defining the correct spelling of an incorrectly spelled search term, the engine will replace the misspelled query with the correct one to display results . . . Read more