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E-commerce site search: guides and analysis

Concrete cases, technical observations, and lessons learned, published monthly.

August 2026

Highlighting a pack without burying search

A pack almost always has a higher average order value, but naturally loses in pure relevance ranking against a single product. Rather than deciding inside the score, a separate field.

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July 2026

Build your own search engine or buy one: how to decide

In-house development seems free on paper. What it actually costs, and where Heurix sits on this trade-off.

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July 2026

Running your search day to day

Your catalog is indexed and search works. What comes after: reading what customers search for, fixing rankings.

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July 2026

Building a category page with Browse & Discovery

A category page has no query to process — just products to rank well. Index, verify, render.

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July 2026

Connecting Heurix to Claude Desktop and Cursor with the MCP server

Ask a natural-language question about your catalog directly inside your AI agent — fifteen minutes to install.

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July 2026

Why vector search fails on technical catalogs

Semantic similarity is a real advance, and the wrong tool when references encode dimensions and standards.

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August 2026

Typo tolerance: why one strategy is never enough

An optimal algorithm on 500 products becomes a bottleneck on 50,000, and the reverse is just as true. Why the right answer comes from measurement.

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August 2026

Your search statistics: which ones to watch

A dashboard always shows more numbers than you have decisions to make. Here are the three worth your attention each week, and what they actually trigger.

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August 2026

Preparing a sales campaign on the search side

Sales, Black Friday, a new range: traffic rises, and with it the cost of every search that fails. What to check before, during and after.

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August 2026

Calculating the ROI of an e-commerce search engine

What share of your revenue goes through the search bar, and what each failed search costs you. The calculation method, variable by variable.

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August 2026

Promoting a product without breaking your results

You're running a campaign on a range. The engine knows nothing about your promotion: it ranks by relevance. Here's how to take control of a few searches without upsetting everything else.

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August 2026

A search returns nothing: fixing it in three minutes

A customer looks for a product you have in stock, and gets nothing. They won't write to tell you. Here's how to spot those searches, understand why they fail, and fix them.

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July 2026

Why “Heurix”? A bit of Greek, a bit of Gaulish

The root of the name doesn't mean “to search.” It means “to find.” The etymology, honestly told.

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July 2026

Index your first hardware catalog in 5 minutes

Two API calls, one real search result with a typo and a different format. All code is tested.

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July 2026

Elasticsearch and Lucene for a technical catalog

The honest inventory of what you'd have to write and maintain yourself — analyzers, tokenizers, synonym graphs.

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July 2026

Heurix vs Algolia, Typesense, Sensefuel, Doofinder

Five tools, five different approaches to finding the right product fast — where each one factually excels.

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July 2026

Custom Rules: personalize your engine without writing regex

A rule pack covers the essentials of an industry, but never your own catalog's exact vocabulary.

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July 2026

Algolia, Typesense, Meilisearch: what alternative for a technical catalog?

Where these three excellent generalist engines stop short against technical references.

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July 2026

Zero-result searches: the dashboard most sites don't have

A customer who searches and finds nothing tells you, in their own words, what they wanted to buy.

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July 2026

Your blog or FAQ search deserves to be good too

Product search gets configured with care, while blog or FAQ search runs on CMS defaults.

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July 2026

How much does an e-commerce search engine cost in 2026?

The listed price doesn't say much until you know what it actually bills.

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July 2026

How to configure search by reference (SKU, DIN, ISO) on a B2B e-commerce site?

Why default engines fail on technical product codes, and how regex changes the game.

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July 2026

Shopify, PrestaShop, Magento: why native search fails past 10,000 references?

Indexing limits of large catalogs, and how to fix it without rebuilding the site.

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July 2026

Faceted search in B2B: how to structure multi-attribute filters?

Designing dynamic, well-ordered facets for technical catalogs.

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July 2026

Synonyms and industry jargon: when your customers' vocabulary breaks your search

Designing a business synonym dictionary without creating false positives.

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July 2026

Poor internal search: what's the real impact on EBITDA?

The economic leverage of internal search, and a simple method to size the current loss.

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July 2026

Why your platform's native search engine isn't enough

The three most common blind spots in default search engines, and how to spot them in five minutes.

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July 2026

5 signs your search engine is costing you sales

Concrete symptoms to check on your own site, no technical tools required, in under ten minutes.

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July 2026

The e-commerce search glossary, no jargon

Synonyms, facets, typo tolerance: what these terms actually mean for your catalog.

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