Category: Feature Description

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 for, leveraging an engine. . . . Read more

What are Intents?

Intents is the name of a feature that analyses all search terms and attempts to group them by a specific subject. This allows better analytics of the overall intent of the visitor, without having to manually combine a lot of similar search terms. Using machine learning, all search terms are . . . 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 specific.

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 rules or the . . . 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 from this. Misspellings . . . 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 to define . . . Read more

How the Google Analytics integration works

The Google Analytics 4 integration from Cludo allows search data to seamlessly be sent to Google Analytics in real-time for further analysis and comparison to other website activity. The integration supports a series of different search data values like the search term, number of results found, and event filter values . . . Read more

How is relevance determined?

Cludo Search is not a black box – the search relevance is based on a unique blend of machine learning and human customization on top of an algorithm. Before customization or machine learning is applied, the Cludo search engine bases relevance using the Okapi BM25 algorithm. A rule of thumb for good search . . . Read more

How do users work in MyCludo?

Users in MyCludo are able to work with tools and configurations. It is possible to restrict user access to certain areas or engines. Only users who are marked as administrators are able to remove and modify other users. Furthermore, only admin users have access to the following features: Depending on . . . Read more

How does the “did you mean” feature work?

When a search only returns a few results, the search engine may also suggest other search terms for the visitors to use. See the table below for details on which actions happen depending on the number of results. Number of results Event 0 The search engine will automatically correct the . . . Read more