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How Shop Product Search Ranks and Suggests Results?

Questions:

  • How does the shop search engine rank products?
  • Why do certain products appear higher in search results?
  • How do autocomplete and search suggestions work?

Tags: Shop-Search, Product-Ranking, Search-Suggestions, Relevancy, Autocomplete

Description:

Understand the logic behind your storefront's search engine. The TYRIOS search system ensures your customers find the right products quickly by analyzing text, stock levels, and product age.

We'll show you, step by step, how to:

  • Understand Ranking: Learn how stock levels and manual relevancy boost items.

  • Explore Suggestions: See how the system predicts customer search terms.

Solution:

  1. Search Term Matching - When a customer types a query, the system uses fuzzy matching to handle typos and prefix matching to catch incomplete words. This ensures results appear even if the spelling is slightly off.
  2. Availability Scoring

    Stock levels directly impact search visibility. Items that are fully in stock receive the highest score multiplier, while out of stock items are pushed further down the results page.

  3. Manual Relevancy Boosts

    Store managers can manually adjust a product's search importance. A product with a higher manual relevancy score will multiply its base search score, placing it above similar items.

  4. New Product Priorities (Time Decay)

    Fresh inventory gets a temporary boost. Newer products automatically score higher than older products, keeping your search results feeling fresh and updated.

  5. Autocomplete and Suggestions

    As the customer types, a parallel query instantly checks for product name matches and offers up to five direct product suggestions to speed up checkout.

Tips and Tricks:

Pro-Tips:

  • Keep product titles and descriptions detailed to improve the base text match score.

  • Regularly update your manual relevancy scores to push seasonal or high margin items.

  • Ensure your stock levels are accurate, as out of stock items lose significant search visibility.

Warnings:

  • Soft deleted or hidden products will never appear in standard search results.

  • Do not overuse manual relevancy, as it can hide naturally popular items from your customers.

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