Exploring Adaptive Search​

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain adaptive search, its main features and benefits.

What Is Adaptive Search?

​Adaptive Search is a powerful Search & Navigation module. This advanced feature enhances the search experience by offering tools to customize. Adaptive Search gives merchandisers greater control over how search results and category pages are presented to the customers.

​This module introduces an innovative approach to designing search configurations that offers the following advantages. They:

  • Are customizable for different user groups or segments​.
  • Have flexible control over the display order of search items and facets.​
  • Have advanced features including boost rules for specific items, facet promotion, and product groupings.​
  • Can promote, reorder, or remove facet values effortlessly.​

These functionalities are possible with the dedicated Adaptive Search Backoffice cockpit shown here:

Screenshot of the Adaptive Search cockpit within the Backoffice interface, highlighting a selected search profile and its associated configuration options.

​You can easily configure facets, boost rules, item sorting, and product groupings based on a custom search profile. You discover how it’s done in the upcoming lessons.

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