Here are easy to follow steps to track top search queries using Google data studio. Make sure you have enabled google site search tracking in google analytics using query parameter. Have a look at this Read more…
The search relevance metric could change depending on your business. CTR- Click through rate- This is the most simplest and common metric to measure search relevance. If for a given search term, the results you Read more…
Autocomplete is a feature within ExpertRec search designed to display suggestions as on you start typing. It can predict what the user is going to type next, available anywhere you find a search box. For any website, this is Read more…
Autocomplete widget provides suggestions while you start typing into the input field. Javascript autocomplete textbox control helps users by displaying a list of suggestions to the user so that while typing in the input field, suggestions Read more…
Autocomplete widgets provide suggestions while you type into the field. Any input field can be powered with an autocomplete feature. While typing in that input field, suggestions for the typed query are searched and displayed to Read more…
Autocomplete is a feature inside any product which can predict what the user is going to type next. On a user interface, users can use tabs, key up-down arrows to select one of the suggested Read more…
What are Stop words? These are commonly found words in documents which add little value to understanding the meaning of a document. Why are stop words important? When we remove stop words from a document, Read more…
To build a complete search engine you would need the following components- Crawler- This goes from one website to another, grabs the content of these websites and stores them in a database. Parser– It Read more…
Solr and elastic search are two most commonly used tools to create search engines. Here is a detailed comparision on the costs, features and performance of both these two search tools . Solr and elastic Read more…
Search filters take the search results list and remove items which are not matching filter criteria. To find required information on site, webmasters provide a lot of tools and filters is one of them. Filters are built Read more…
In this article, we will see what is indexing and why it is important in a search engine. Every search engine has 3 main components- Crawling. Indexing. Query processing. What is indexing / an index? Read more…
Facets and filters are overlapping concepts with one important difference. Both will help users to narrow down search results but facet is more intuitive and powerful but has more work to design, create and maintain. Read more…
TF stands for term frequency. IDF stands for inverse document frequency. TF-IDF stands for the multiplication between Term frequency and inverse data frequency. Why are these important? These calculations help us in finding out the important words Read more…
What does facet mean? Facets are one of the best methods for narrowing down enormous search results/data to a chosen few depending on some attributes. Histry of facets: Facets have its underlying foundations in the Read more…
Search engines are a crucial component of discovery. Just like the IC Engine is core to an automobile, Search is for your discovery platform. In this Guide, we are going to see how to benchmark your current Read more…
Ngram, bigram, trigram are methods used in search engines to predict the next word in a incomplete sentence. If n=1 , it is unigram, if n=2 it is bigram and so on…. N-grams- This will Read more…
What is stemming? Stemming is reducing a word to the simplest form. For example- running will be simplified to run. While performing a search, the search engine also tries to find not only an exact Read more…
What Is Voice Search? Voice search allows users to get search results by speaking his query instead of typing words. Natural Language Processing(NLP) is used to process and recognize what the user is saying. NLP is at Read more…
Facets allow narrowing down search results/data to a chosen few depending on some field or attributes. According to Wikipedia: Faceted search is a technique which involves augmenting traditional search techniques with a faceted navigation system, Read more…
Expertrec wordpress search plugin helps you build your own custom search engine for wordpress. Expertrec also adds a default custom search template to wordpress. We will see how to edit this template using expertrec’s control Read more…
Here are methods to make a PDF searchable for free. Using Google docs Upload your PDF to google drive. Right click on the PDF and open with google docs. This converts the PDF to text Read more…
Here are easy steps to create a pdf search bar. Make sure your PDFs are accessible (live). This means your PDF is not inside a drive or in your local system. Make sure your PDFs Read more…
Google has become notorious for shutting down their products. Often one is stranded and feels cheated. Hey, don’t worry. you have come to the right place to find a list of alternatives you could use instead Read more…
In this article we will see how to create a PDF search using the command line. Here we will take the following PDF and see if we can make extract its content searchable. PDF link Read more…
In this article, we will see how to get your PDF search api using expertrec. This method involves creating a PDF search engine using expertrec. Before attempting the steps below, make sure that your site Read more…
To search for PDFs, you have to append filetype:PDF to the search query. You can use the following command to search for PDFs in google. [crayon-5c82a40fb6c1f691035509/] Here is a sample search query for PDFs containing Read more…
Here are steps to create a PDF search box. Go to https://cse.expertrec.com/?platform=cse Create a sitemap mentioning all your PDFs. Enter this as the sitemap URL in your expertrec control panel. Wait for the crawl to Read more…
Using expertrec, you can create a PDF search tool that indexes content inside your website’s PDFs and shows in you website’s/ blogs search results. This functionality might be useful for websites that have a lot Read more…
Sometimes the search engine you have might not be functioning or indexing the content within the PDF. To fix this, some of the following steps can help you. Make sure the PDFs are live and Read more…
Here are steps to create a google PDF search engine Go to https://cse.google.com/cse/ Create a google custom search engine Enable search the entire web to ON. Go to search features-> Advanced -> Websearch settings- Under query Read more…
If your wix search is not working, you can follow the following steps to fix it. This involves creating a custom search engine using expertrec and adding it our wix site. Create you wix custom Read more…
You can create a javascript search box on the webpage and the users can search your page content with their keywords; it’s easy to use and very fast. We will discuss the search box using ExpertRec Read more…
If you have not created the search engine HTML code for your website, it’s very easy and can be created easily. Basically, it’s code which includes a javascript on the page and HTML tag where the Read more…
If the default shopify search is not working, you can follow the steps below to fix it. This method involves creating a shopify custom search engine using expertrec and replacing the default shopify search with Read more…
Google Search Script #1. Create your own search engine: visit google custom search : https://cse.google.com/cse/ 2. Sign in to Custom Search Engine using your Google Account 3. After sign in, go to “https://cse.google.com/cse/create/new” to create a Read more…
In this article, we will see how to avail expertrec’s free site search engine for university websites (non profits, medical institutions and more). Here are the criteria to be eligible for expertrec’s free site search Read more…
When you create a google custom search, the autocomplete might take sometime to go live. To fix your google custom search autocomplete not working, follow steps below. Login into your google custom search control panel. Read more…
The autocomplete Method 1-Using the control panel. Go to your google custom search control panel. Go to Search features->autocomplete->Enable autocomplete. Method 2- Editing the google custom search code In the google custom search code, replace Read more…
In this article we will see how to use the Google custom search site restricted JSON API. Points to remember- (if you do not adhere to the following points your API might not return the Read more…
Want to get more sign ups in your wordpress site? One of the easiest ways is to add social login to your site. This shortens the sign up process and fortunately there are social login Read more…
Google is discontinuing site search (GSS) as of April 1. Once a customer’s allocated search queries gets exhausted, the Google site search (GSS) will convert to Google’s Custom Search Engine, or CSE. What is the Read more…
Nowadays, its de-facto standard that any business service or organization has a web presence. Every website will get benefit if a search bar is present to make Content searchable in it. This content can be about the Read more…
Here are steps to enable author bio in wordpress blog posts (no ayyoying gravatars) Go to your wordpress admin panel -> plugins-> Add new plugins -> search for “simple author box” Install and activate the Read more…
Two factor authentication for wordpress is a great way to protect your wordpress website from brute force attacks. Two factor authentication adds a layer of protection to the standard password method of online identification. Adding Read more…
Merging Javascript files in magento could improve your magento site speed and can be done in a matter of few seconds, if you have access to magento admin panel. To merge javascript files magento follow Read more…
The default drupal, search is not that great. There could be a lot of reasons why your drupal search search is not working. Here are a few simple steps you can take to fix your Read more…
Search traffic on any website converts the best .You can make simple configuration changes that can help improve your magento search results. Magento panel changes: Analyze top search queries – Analyze searches on your site. Read more…
One of the main disadvantages of google custom search is that it shows. Here are the top google custom search alternatives. Expertrec custom search engine– Beautiful search UI, No ads, code less implementation, great support Read more…
Here are steps to create a custom search in Drupal 7/8. Create a drupal custom search engine using expertrec from https://cse.expertrec.com/?platform=cse Inside your expertrec control panel, enter your drupal sitemap URL. Wait for your site Read more…
Want to deliver a google like search engine on your magento store? You can accomplish this with expertrec custom search engine for 9 USD per month depending upon the number of URLs in your website. Read more…
Here are two methods to create a custom news search engine Using expertrec- Go to https://cse.expertrec.com/?platform=cse Enter your website URl of the news website (here we will take forbes.com ) as an example. You can Read more…