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
You can configure your crawler to index dates, which can be utilized for various purposes such as date filtering or date freshness boosting. To set this up: When selecting the Date data type, the indexed value will appear in the Date format. You can verify the correct date format by . . . Read more
What is the WordPress Plugin? The WordPress plugin alerts your crawlers whenever new pages are created or existing ones are modified. This process guarantees that any new content or modifications to existing content are recognized and reindexed immediately and this way ensures that your content is up-to-date and searchable. Plugin . . . Read more
What is Private Data Masking? Some users might accidentally input sensitive information, such as SSNs or credit card numbers, into search inputs. This presents a data security issue, allowing MyCludo users access to that information. Private Data Masking is a protective feature designed to conceal sensitive information entered into search . . . Read more
Structured data consists of JSONPath expressions. These expressions are used to pinpoint specific data within a JSON document. In MyCludo, JSONPath can be used in the crawler configuration, enabling the definition of a precise section of the JSON data retrieved from a web page. JSONPath uses its own syntax to . . . Read more
When you have a page that you recently published or updated and would like this to be indexed for your search immediately, the Update Content tool can come in handy.
The Anonymize IP addresses feature in MyCludo prevents the storage of IP addresses. Cludo replaces the last three IP digits with zeros to anonymize the IP address. The replacement happens instantly every time an event is registered, and Cludo does not store the original IP address. This setting works retroactively, . . . Read more
The Excluded IP addresses feature allows you to prevent search activity from specific IP addresses from showing up in your MyCludo analytics. This is valuable when you’re looking to filter away internal search activity, for example, giving you a clearer picture of what external search activity actually looks like. How . . . Read more