Settings
Use the Settings workspace to configure semantic search, price facet ranges and intervals, and the default language for the index.
Semantic search semantic-search
Semantic search uses AI to match products based on meaning and context, not only exact keywords. When Semantic search is enabled, shoppers who use natural language or wording that does not match your catalog verbatim can still find relevant products. Live Search delivers keyword and semantic matching in one unified search experience on the storefront. Semantic search works alongside your existing configuration; search rules, synonyms, facets, boosts, and category merchandising continue to apply.
To enable semantic search (PaaS only):
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In the Admin, go to Marketing > SEO & Search > Live Search.
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On the Settings workspace, enable Semantic search.
When enabled, search matches products based on meaning and context, resulting in more relevant results, fewer zero-result searches, and improved conversion.
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Click Save.
Search results update after indexing completes. For a medium-sized catalog, indexing can take up to half an hour. For large catalogs with millions of products, it can take a few hours.
For benefits, validation guidance, best practices, troubleshooting, and limitations, see Semantic search.
Field descriptions
Price faceting price-faceting
You can specify the number of price range groups and how price values are distributed among them. Each price range overlaps the previous group by one. For example, five groups with an interval of 20 creates the following price ranges: 0-20, 20-40, 40-60, 60-80, and >80. If there are not enough products in the catalog to fill all defined ranges, the display of the available groups is adjusted accordingly. For example: 0-20, 60-80, >80.
To configure price faceting:
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In the Admin, go to Marketing > SEO & Search > Live Search.
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On the Settings workspace under Price faceting, do the following:
- Enter the Number of selections, or price groupings to be available. With Live Search 4.4.0, you can define up to 100 price groupings. Earlier versions allowed 50 price groupings.
- Enter the Interval value, or price range for each group. The maximum value is 40,000,000.
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Click Save.
It takes about 15 minutes for the updated settings to be available in the storefront.
Field descriptions
Language language
The Language setting tells Live Search which language to expect when reading the catalog and writing the index.
Languages have different sets of rules for grammar: how words are separated, verb tenses and word forms, for example.
The Language setting ensures that the correct set of rules is applied to the indexing mechanism.
Set the Language setting to the primary language of the catalog. When changing the language of the index, it can take from 5 to 60 minutes to reflect the change on the storefront, depending on the size and complexity of the catalog.