August, 2024
- Support for setting the title of crawled MS Office documents based on the incoming links text (in addition to PDFs)
- Fixed a bug in Search UI library related to rewriting the page URL that contains commas in the query string
- Fixed a bug related to Search UI range facet checkbox
- Fixed an issue in Dashboard that would sometimes not show the Google login button
- Added support for indexing CSV files
- Added an upper limit for custom fields per index (200)
- Added additional ways to pick up a product id from a product page for AddSearch Recommend, configurable via the Dashboard
- Fixed the date picker component for promotions in the Dasbhoard
July, 2024
- Index Tools now shows detailed reasons for why pages are excluded from the index
- Fixed an issue with Dashboard Analytics view keyword page navigation
- Minor fixes for new Pinned Results admin UI
- Fixed a bug in Search UI library’s range facet slider component
- Made the AddSearch ready made search widget more secure and behave nicer with Content-Security-Policy headers by removing usage of eval function
June, 2024
- Added support for German language Auto-Synonyms
- Fixed issue with invoice totals being displayed wrong in the billing section
- Published new improved Pinned Results admin UI
- Published AddSearch Recommend
- Fixed formatting of integer value custom fields in Search API response
May, 2024
- Improvements to analytics spreadsheet export – addition of daily daily searches and clicks
- Fixed the autocomplete API endpoint to not be case sensitive
- Added support for WebP image format when crawling featured images
April, 2024
- Fixed accidental case sensitivity in progressive ranking
- Shopify support large arrays
March, 2024
- Crawler: support for XFA-based PDF forms
- Search UI: Added a callback “renderCompleteCallback”, triggered after rendering is complete
- Added support for pinning results based on URL also for API based indices
- “Pinned results” feature gained support for hiding results based on a keyword
February, 2024
- JS Client: added a callback function for intercepting API requests
- New engine for rendering dynamic/javascript based pages for faster and more reliable crawling
January, 2024
- Ranking tools preview improvements for API indices
- Added Support for creating document categories using indexing API
- Added a standard document field for defining document thumbnail images via indexing API
- Shopify metafields support
- Show min/max price for product variants for Shopify
December 12th, 2023
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Added videos for personalisation and frequently bought together on sample index.
November 21st, 2023
November 16th, 2023
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Improvements on Sample Index.
November 7th, 2023
- AddSearch Dashboard
- A new filter option (ends with) has been added to site Areas.
October 26th, 2023
October 5th, 2023
- Ready-made UI views (Widget and Separate results page)
- Added support for multiple widgets working on the same page
- We recommend taking a look at our Search UI library to implement a modern, fully-featured search. Contact us to get help with this
October 2nd, 2023
September 1st, 2023
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Essentials plan is removed from the billing options.
August 29th, 2023
August 29th, 2023
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Added long domain name support for Crawler based indexes
August 3rd, 2023
- Shopify App
- Shopify app interface now supports the following languages: Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Taiwanese.Check it out on Shopify App Store!
June 17th, 2023
June 16th, 2023
- WordPress plugin
- WordPress plugin 2.2.2 is launched.Fixed an issue with the plugin and the WordPress Admin Dashboard’s Pages search function. Refactoring of settings page code to remove code duplication.Check it out here!
June 15th, 2023
- AddSearch Dashboard
- You can now see the search usage related to the previous billing period on the dashboard.
June 14th, 2023
- AddSearch Dashboard
- We have a new user onboarding guide on our dashboard now.
June 13th, 2023
- Ready-made UI views (Widget and Separate results page)
- Added GA-4 support
- We recommend taking a look at our Search UI library to implement a modern, fully-featured search. Contact us to get help with this
June 8th, 2023
June 7th, 2023
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Frequently Bought Together preview functionality has been added to the Dashboard.
June 6th, 2023
- Shopify App
- An option to display/hide product type information on overlay widget has been added to Shopify App. Shopify Ranking Tools preview now displays json object for search results.Check it out on Shopify App Store!
May 31th, 2023
May 15th, 2023
April 13th, 2023
April 12th, 2023
- AddSearch Dashboard
- New dashboard is launched with new look and feel.
April 11th, 2023
- WordPress plugin
- WordPress plugin 2.2.1 is launched.Added filter by the language setting. Added support for block themes.Added new settings for widget size, grid and list view and light and dark themes.Check it out here!
March 16th, 2023
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Frequently Bought Together configurations are live on AddSearch Dashboard
February 16th, 2023
January 25th, 2023
- Single sign-on (SSO) now supports SAML!
October 26th, 2022
- Search UI Library
- New release v0.7.6 is out.Added option to change “facet” parameter in URL. Added option to set delay for scroll to top function. Check out the release on github!
January 11th, 2023
December 14th, 2022
- Search Designer
- New features are launched in Search Designer; Design and layout tab has been added which includes features like grid layout, dark/light theme, and widget size configuration.Check it out on here!
November 9th, 2022
- Ready-made UI views (Widget and Separate results page)
- Added translations for German, Spannish, Finnish to ui_language setting
- We recommend taking a look at our Search UI library to implement a modern, fully-featured search. Contact us to get help with this
October 26th, 2022
- Search UI Library
- New release v0.7.6 is out.Added option to change “facet” parameter in URL. Added option to set delay for scroll to top function. Check out the release on github!
October 20th, 2022
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Have Date Boost On-Off toggle in Ranking Tools
- Allow “-” in Suggestion’s custom field’s name
October 4th, 2022
- AddSearch Crawler
- AddSearch Crawler now supports reading custom fields from HTTP response headers which allows our users to pass custom field values in PDF documents
- JS Client Library
- Release v.0.8.0 is out. Resolved vulnerability issues relating to the mock HTTP requests in the mocha test.
August 2nd, 2022
July 28th, 2022
July 1st, 2022
June 27th, 2022
May 19th, 2022
April 21th, 2022
April 6th, 2022
March 25th, 2022
February 16th, 2022
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Big news for our Finnish Customers! Advanced Finnish Stemmer is out! You can start using the new stemmer by going to Other Settings – > Stemming and choosing the Finnish (Advanced) option from the drop-down.
- Search UI Library
- New release v0.6.3 is out.Search field component’s fieldForInstantRedirect is deprecated. New parameter in Search UI Configuration: fieldForInstantRedirect. This change allows using both fieldForInstantRedirect and searchResultsPageUrl at the same time. Check Github for rele details.
February 9th, 2022
February 2nd, 2022
- Search UI Library
- New release v0.6.1 now allows registering handlebars partials. Handlebars allow for template reuse through partials. Partials are normal Handlebars templates that may be called directly by other templates. Read more at the handlebars website. See the pull request for details.
- JS Client Library
- Release v.0.6.6 is out. JS Client library now supports Hierarchical Facets and Analytics Tagging.
January 25th, 2022
- AddSearch Dashboard
- You can now subscribe to Premium Plan directly from the AddSearch dashboard!
December 23rd, 2021
- AddSearch Dashboard
- We have launched a new feature on Ranking Tools called Progressive Ranking!
It is an AddSearch feature powered by AI-based machine learning algorithms that enhance search results dynamically in real-time. Based on the query and the position of the result they click or convert, it can improve your relevance by boosting results that are rising in popularity over a given period. You can read more on our blog!
December 20th, 2021
- Search UI Library
- Search UI Library v0.6.0 is released!
Added support for advanced sticky facets: clicking on an item in a specific facet group will update all other facet groups except for itself.
Added a new source in autocomplete component for custom field values.
December 15th, 2021
December 8th, 2021
- AddSearch Dashboard
- We have added average click position information to our Analytics Dashboard. The average position of clicked search results. Smaller results are better. E.g. for the keyword “mask”, one user clicks the first result and one user click the second result, ACP is (1*1+1*2)/2 = 1.5.
- Search UI library
- If the search keyword is matching with any search result’s custom field’s value, then redirect users to the matched page. See the pull request for details.
- Widget and separate results page views
- cacheTtlSeconds parameter added in the script snippet. The value of this parameter defines how long the script will be cached in your website’s visitors’ browser and it reduces the page load time
November 17th, 2021
- AddSearch Dashboard
- In order to give our customers more time to try out our product, the AddSearch trial period has been increased from 7 days to 14 days!
October 27th, 2021
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Search UI library
- Added search operator for js client library. If the search operator is set to “and”, when a user searches with multiple keywords, we return only documents that contain all the terms
September 27th, 2021
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Added new instruction video for Pinned Results
- Index tools and Ranking Tools improvements for Indexing API based indices
- Improved status page for Organization Management Tools
- Search UI library
- Store non-default sort by field in the URL for browser history support
- Improvements to analytics collection from autocomplete component
June 27th, 2021
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Improved Dashboard frontpage
- New feature: Ranking tools – adjust field weights, date boost, custom field boost to fine-tune ranking
- Search UI library (new 0.5.0 release)
- Changed behavior: The matchAllQuery setting won’t make search queries for the autocomplete box anymore. Only for the main search
- New setting for the Search field component: onfocusAutocompleteMatchAllQuery. With this setting, focusing an empty search field fires a match all query for the autocomplete box. Intended use is to show recommended search results to the user, before she has typed anything
- Optimized rendering: Components won’t be re-rendered if the output HTML wouldn’t change
- JS Client
- Added support for “language” property in filter object.
- AddSearch Crawler
- OG image tags parsing is enabled now by default for new indices
March 19th, 2021
- AddSearch Dashboard
- New search analytics segment, with enhanced tools for analyzing user behaviour
- New navigation and facelift for enterprise user management tool
- Search UI library
- New setting to disable browser history
- Search results template shows the page URL if there is no title
- JS Client
- Support to filter with standard language field of documents when using filter objects with JS Client
- Indexing API
- Support for standard language field for create/update document endpoints
January 29th, 2021
- Widget and separate results page views
- Fixed hovering on a PDF result not displaying the screen capture
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Pinned results tool now works with protected indices requiring JWT (Javascript Web Token) validation
- Added embedded instruction video for Domains and Crawling section
- JS Client library
- Added support for “eq” operator for the filtering object
December 18th, 2020
- Widget and separate results page views
- Hovering on Promotion result won’t display screen capture
- Added localizations for text “Search suggestions” in widget (fi, sv, it, et, ru)
- AddSearch Dashboard
- New beta version of Dashboard analytics launched for Premium and Enterprise accounts
- Added embedded instruction videos for index tools and site areas
- Index tools URL export format changed form text to CSV, now includes document ID in addition to URL
- Fixed an issue with synonyms that included stop words
- AddSearch Crawler
- Added more settings for selecting the creation date for PDF documents
- Fixed our bots user-agent string when crawling dynamic javascript content and capturing images
- Search UI library
- Added a new configuration option baseFilters to define filters that are applied in every search query. The end user can’t see or modify baseFilters.
- Added support for URLs with query parameters to the searchResultsPageUrl setting
- Added debounce to browser history in search-as-you-type implementations
- Fixed: Pagination was not reset when the keyword changed
- Autocomplete box with infinite scroll was not hidden properly on blur event
September 21st, 2020
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Tools to create both crawler and API based indices
- Pinned results tool improvements for API based indices
- Search UI library
- New configuration option to define the query parameter’s name for keyword (by default “?search=”)
- Widget and separate results page views
- Fixed an additional issue with displaying “No results” message in some cases.
- Added multiple new backend settings to fine-tune search functionality. Contact us to learn more.
- The ranking boost given for exact matches has now additional configuration options
- The boost given for new documents can now be configured, both by the boost multiplier and the length of its effect
- Fixed an issue where synonyms containing stop words would be saved correctly
August 21st, 2020
- Launched Single sign-on (SSO) support for enterprise customers
- JS Client library
- Search UI library
- New setting for “Pagination” component to prevent page scrolling to top when loading a new result page
- Fixed race condition bug with search-as-you-type implementations when the keyword is erased by holding backspace
- Clear segmented search results when the keyword is erased
- See full release notes on Github
- Pinned results
- Added ability to pin more than ten results
- Increased the maximum length of the search phrase from 50 to 100 characters
- Widget and separate results page views
- Fixed an issue where the “no results” text was shown when only fuzzy results were found
- Improved accessibility with “aria-label” attributes in the search field
- Added support for right-to-left (RTL) text direction
June 22nd, 2020
- Added multiple new backend settings to fine-tune search functionality. Contact us to learn more.
- Postfix wildcard to all terms (i.e., blue* car*)
- Possibility to control word delimiter filters (e.g., split T20 to T and 20)
- Improved support for SKUs with hyphens
- Control over multi-term queries rewrite
- Added new languages to the Language-specific stemming setting. Currently, the following languages are supported:
- Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish Sorani, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Added Icelandic translations to the Widget and Separate results page views
- Fixed an issue with Pinned results where duplicate results were shown in some scenarios
- Search UI library
- Added a setting to disable automatic analytics collection: collectAnalytics
- New setting for filters component to set the order of results when the filter value changes: setSorting
- See full release notes on Github
May 18th, 2020
- Big news: Indexing API
- Push your content through the Indexing API instead of using our web crawler. Great for use cases where your data is well-organized and you want to have full control over what gets indexed. The document schema is customizable and several data types are supported
- Search API. Multiple features in Developer Preview
- Custom search ranking with definable field weights (e.g. title is 5x more important than description) and by custom field values (e.g. boost products that are in stock and have highest ratings)
- Custom ascii folding to control umlauts and carons (e.g. should schön match schon or not)
- Search UI library
- New filter type: Range filter. Can be used with numerical or date-based custom fields
- New facet setting: Sticky. When facets are sticky, multiple facet filters can be enabled simultaneuosly
- See examples of these new features
- See full release notes on Github
- JavaScript client library
- New feature: Field statistics. With this feature, you get minimum, maximum, and average values of numerical or date-based custom fields with the search response. This information is valuable for example to range filters
- See full release notes on Github
- Crawler
- Added support for a meta tag to control indexing rules for AddSearchBot:
<meta name=”addsearchbot” content=”noindex” />
- New feature: Custom crawler headers to pass information to your backend (e.g. to access protected areas)
- Improved PDF handling with large documents and fixed problems with screen capturing these files
April 15th, 2020
- AddSearch Dashboard
- Site area rules: Option to create “contains” or “regular expression” type rules
- Added a list of latest keywords to the Statistics page
- Improvements to Pinned results tool’s saving logic
- Fixed a problem where the last dot in a Promotion’s text got snipped out
- Search UI library
- New component: “Load more results” with support for infinite scroll
- New component: Segmented search results to display multiple results lists with different filters
- See examples of new (and old) components
- Improved the logic of how analytics events are sent to AddSearch Analytics Dashboard
- Various improvements and bug fixes. See full release notes on Github
- JavaScript client library
- New fuzzy search mode: Retry. By default, show exact matches only. If none are found, show fuzzy matches for typo-tolerance
- Support for postfixWildcard (you can add a wildcard at the end of the keyword)
- See full release notes on Github
- Search API
- Return processing time with search queries
- New features: Range facets
- See API docs
March 17th, 2020
- AddSearch Dashboard
- New Analytics Dashboard with long-anticipated features like Click-through rate (CTR)
- A new tool in the “Domains and crawling” settings: Text extraction rules. Control which part of your HTML should be indexed by our crawler
- Index tools got URL history. Frequently-accessed URLs can be easily re-accessed
- Ready-made UI views (Widget and Separate results page)
- Added Dutch translations
- We recommend taking a look at our Search UI library to implement a modern, fully-featured search. Contact us to get help with this
- Search UI library
- Added support for Promotions
- Added icons for PDF, DOC, and PPT results and a placeholder image for search results having no featured image
- Improved styling and consistency across various browsers and devices
- See full release notes on Github
- JavaScript client library
- Added throttling to API calls
- New function (sendStatsEvent) to send search queries and clicks to our Analytics Dashboard
- See full release notes on Github
- Search API
- Document types returned with each hit in the document_type field. Type can be html, pdf, doc, docx, ppt, or pptx
- Size parameter added to the autocomplete endpoint
- Ajax crawling: Added a possibility to crawl URLs without removing the anchor part (#). Meant for websites that load content depending on the hash part
February 12th, 2020
- Search UI: New example view with most of the UI components in use
- Other Search UI updates include sending clicks to the analytics dashboard, a new callback function that when the autocomplete is shown, and more. See full release notes in Github
- Search API & JS client: Autocompletion from custom fields. For example, keyword “a” from the custom field “brand” could return results like “apple, amazon, audi”. See API docs and JS client for more information.
- Dashboard: Index tools URL field autocomplete. Start typing a part of a URL in the field to see matching URLs
- Custom ranking (in preview)
- Ranking by custom field values: For example, product popularity or ratings can affect the order of search results
- Adjustable field weights: For example, hits in the product name field can be more important than hits in the description text field
- Contact us to learn more
January 23rd, 2020
- Dashboard
- New feature: Custom fields manager! Use CSS selectors or pick up structural data to custom fields. Custom fields can be used for filters, facets, autocomplete, sort by, and many other use cases
- Improvements in Index tools: Show custom field values, featured images and make the URL persistent if you navigate out from the page
- Reorganized Settings section to make it clear which settings are universal and which applies only Widget or Separate results page installations
- Site area boosts: New tool to inspect a URL and see what site area rule applies to it
- New Search UI library features to create filter change hooks and to register custom Handlebars helpers. See release notes at Github
- JS Client library updates to make it possible to post clicks to statistics. You’ll see the click data on your Analytics Dashboard and the data is used in our self-learning search algorithm. See release notes at Github
- JWT support for search suggestions in a secured search index
- Updated WordPress plugin with better support for newer WP versions
December 16th, 2019
- The AddSearch Search UI library is launched! With this library, developers can create fully customized user interfaces quickly and easily.
- Cut down the time to market: Get a custom UI with no developer resources
- User interfaces are modern, mobile-friendly, and cross-browser compatible
- The library is JavaScript framework-agnostic: Works with your stack
- Check out this simple example to get started, or contact us to learn more.
November 25th, 2019
- Possibility to sort by custom field added to the Search API and JS client. For example, users can sort products by price or rating
- Improved typo tolerance: New parameter value “auto” for fuzzy matching in the Search API and JS client for combined non-fuzzy and fuzzy matches
- Possibility to configure the exact match boost per customer
- Title filters are now applied from the longest to the shortest. Order of title filters does not matter anymore
- Custom field filters are now used for pinned results among the organic results
- Added crawling status information to the Dashboard
- Optimized screen capturing of PDFs with a lot of pages
- Fixed a bug causing expired trial customers not being able to subscribe in some scenarios
- Added support for searchable custom fields. For example, search queries with a product brand or size can match to a relevant custom field from now on
- Support for defining the data type of custom fields (boolean, date, integer, double, keyword, text)
October 10th, 2019
September 26th, 2019
- Launched Multi-Factor Authentication for Dashboard login. Enable it from the Security link on Dashboard’s top right corner
- Added support for organization-specific security settings on the Enterprise plan: Password expiration time, automatic lock-up of inactive user accounts
- Separate results page: Fixed double encoding issue when the keyword contained an ampersand
- Implemented multi-factor authentication for payment confirmations for European customers (because of PSD2)
- New features in the Search API and JavaScript API client library:
- Possibility to query organic results only (i.e., leave Pinned results and promotions out)
- Added a way to pass personalization events with the search query
- A function to change the number of facets to fetch
August 29th, 2019
- Possibility to sort search results by a custom field added to the separate results page.
- The length limitation of Promotions removed (previously 150 character limit).
- Fixed a bug in Search widget that caused infinite scrolling failing if the browser window was zoomed.
- Multiple new features in the Search API and JS API client:
- Set the JWT token to access protected search index
- Personalization related functions
- Price range filtering
- Possibility to control the number of search suggestions
- Facets. Support aggregated counts of matches per facet
July 30th, 2019
- Search results page: Fixed a bug where the “No results found” text was shown if pinned or promoted results were returned with a keyword not returning any organic search results.
- Search suggestions autocomplete activated to users in Professional, Premium and Enterprise plans. Contact us if you need any help with the implementation.
- Fixed a URL encoding issue causing problems with images that have spaces in their URLs.
- Added functionality to use a JWT protected search engine from the Dashboard’s front page (“try your search”).
- Dashboard: Add-on prices are now displayed correctly according to the selected payment interval.
June 25th, 2019
- Search suggestions officially launched. Try it out on our own search bar on the top right corner, or on the search results page. Contact us to learn more about the implementation.
- New feature: Protected search indices with JWT authentication.
- Added support for data types in custom fields. For example, a numeric custom field can be used with range filters.
- New user role: Read-only users (along with regular users and admins). Read-only users can see setting values and search analytics data, but can’t modify anything.
- Added support for Search suggestions and JWT authentication to the JS client library.
- Improved support of URLs with Chinese characters.
May 27th, 2019
- Are you developing on top of our API? Good news: JavaScript client library for the Search API is out now. Use it directly from web browsers or with node.js.
- New feature: Parsing custom field values from JSON data. Also, support for dates and numbers for range filtering. Contact us to hear more.
May 15th, 2019
- New feature: Search suggestions autocomplete. Try our own search bar on the top right corner to see search suggestions. API and general availability will be launched shortly
- Added new language-specific stemming settings: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish
- New JavaScript function in results page: clearCustomFieldFiltersByName. Possibility to define initial custom field filters with window.addsearch_settings.filters.custom_fields property
- Revamped Billing section on Dashboard with a possibility to upgrade or downgrade your subscription plan
- Fixed a bug causing a delay before synonyms started to work in search results
- A new website published. Woohoo!
April 17th, 2019
- New feature: Possibility to set a language-specific stemming that support different word forms (e.g. plurals) in multiple languages and hugely improves support of non-Latin languages (e.g. Chinese)
- Big performance improvements when searching very long articles (10 000+ characters).
- Improved styling options in Promotions. Text and background colors work now properly and styles are passed through the Search API as well.
- Improved Sitemap.xml support so unsupported file types (.mpg, .mp3, etc.) won’t be added to the indexing queue.
- New setting to the dedicated search results page: Load results without any search term with the “automatic_match_all_query” setting.
- Fixed an issue where a URL after redirection was not checked against robots.txt.
- Fixed Google Analytics integration when the old GA script (_gaq) is used.
March 25th, 2019
- New feature: Promotions! Create promotion ads that are shown with specific, or any, keywords. Available in Large and Enterprise plans.
- Improved Spanish, Finnish and German translations in search results views
- For new accounts and added domains, sitemap.xml is crawled by default from now on
- Improved session handling on Dashboard. Users stay logged in as long as the browser is open
March 5th, 2019
- Two new settings on the Dashboard: Index meta keywords and enable boosting by publishing date (newer articles get a higher score)
- Statistics: Popular keywords, keywords with no hits and keywords with no clicks are shown for API customers from now on. Read more on how to feed click events to our analytics
- From now on, HTTP redirects are followed when we’re downloading featured images
- Fixed the Pinned results feature when a keyword includes a dash character
- Widget view: Fixed positioning bug on mobile devices, which caused search results being misaligned in some scenarios
- Improved filtering against custom fields and fixed the Search API behavior when a custom field name contains spaces
February 7th, 2019
- New feature: Possibility to set language-specific stemming to your search index
- Possibility to pin search results directly with an URL on the Pinned results tool
- Search API: New JavaScript library to send result clicks to our Analytics backend, and all the way to the self-learning search algorithm
- Possibility to control search widget‘s opening direction with a new setting “results_box_opening_direction”
- New filter on the dedicated search results page: Filter by price range
- Ready-made UI’s (Widget and Results page): Improved event listeners to get rid of warnings on Chrome
- Stability improvements to the AJAX/JavaScript crawling and to the process handling featured images
- WordPress plugin updated and tested all the way to WP 5.0.3
January 18th, 2019
- Added support for the Croatian language to hosted search UIs
- Pinned results rolled out to all customers
- Revamped navigation structure on AddSearch Dashboard
- Improved paging beyond results page 9 on the dedicated search results page
- Fixed an issue causing some HTML hits without a featured image showing a PDF icon
- Added a possibility to append a custom CSS class name to the search results widget
- Improved search relevancy if a single page has multiple H1 titles
- Added support for language-specific stemmers for Enterprise customers
- Title filters are applied to Search API responses as well from now on
- Improved handling of RSS feeds
- Created new ways to crawl password-protected websites. Contact us if you’re interested in hearing more
December 20th, 2018
- New feature: Custom fields and filtering based on them
- Pinned results enabled to all customers
- Real-time site area rules enabled to all customers
- Search UI: Publishing date can be formatted with a custom JavaScript function defined with date_format_function (widget, dedicated results page)
- Search widget: Support for right-to-left layout with the direction: ‘rtl’ setting
- Structural changes to Dashboard’s navigation hierarchy, settings divided to multiple pages
- Improved supports for languages with non-Latin characters (Chinese, Japanese, etc.)
- Fixed RSS feed support if URL contained uppercase characters
- Beta launch of a new organization management tool and limited user roles for Enterprise customers. Contact us if you’re interested to hear more.
November 28th, 2018
- Launched the Pinned results feature to manually curate search results. This feature is rolled out to existing customers during the following weeks.
- Launched the UI for synonyms. This feature is rolled out to existing customers with an appropriate plan during the following weeks
- Launched real-time Site area rules that don’t require re-crawling. This feature is rolled out to existing customers during the following weeks.
- Launched a feature to export all indexed URLs.
- Beta support for custom meta tags and filtering against them. For example, it’s possible to define a city name or article’s author in a meta tag and filter search results based on those values.
- Added a third, optional, attribute to dynamic category filters to prevent search results refreshing automatically after every time filters are modified.
- Added possibility to pre-define date range filter on load time in Separate results page’s settings.
- Widget and Separate results page views: Fixed an issue with document date not being shown if doc’s category was defined with a meta tag.
- Beta-release of a possibility to use both Widget and the Separate results page views simultaneously on the same website.
October 12th, 2018
- Category filters can be now used to filter search results to PDF files only.
- Improved Dashboard behavior when the user session expires. From now on you’ll be directed to a login page properly.
- Improved Regular Expression support for Site area rules. With the prefix regex: you can create complex rules to boost your pages.
- Added a few new settings to the Dashboard: Show meta description instead of the standard highlight text with search results. Rename search query parameter on the traditional results page (default is ?addsearch=keyword)
- From now on, PDF’s are opened to a new tab by default. The link target can be adjusted with the new link_target setting though.
- Added possibility to filter search results by publishing date.
September 28th, 2018
- Dashboard and hosted demo page: First batch of styling changes released (for example colors and fonts).
- Started to list Enterprise customers’ payment receipts on the Dashboard’s Billing section.
- Search-as-you-type Widget: New setting to define the search field’s placeholder text.
- Improved URL handling on websites serving content over both HTTP and HTTPS.
- Tightened requirements for password strength.
- Improved file type detection to index missing Word and PowerPoint files.
- Created additional options to detect titles in PDF files.
September 11th, 2018
- Beta-version of our new modal view is added to this website. On desktop computers, the modal view combines our instant search-as-you-type widget with a traditional results view. Try it out on the top right corner: Type something to the search field and press enter. The new results window will open.
Do you like it? How it could be improved? Send any comments and suggestions at info@addsearch.com.
September 10th, 2018
- All-new sign-up flow launched for new customers.
- Added support to crawl websites behind HTTP basic authentication. Form-based auth is supported as well.
- Improved handling of relative paths in og:image tags.
- Improvements to PDF indexing:
- Increased the size of the screen captures we take of PDF files.
- Started to index meta keywords from PDF files.
- Implemented a way to save the PDF’s description text from the file’s meta tags as well.
- Minor style tweaks to the search widget and hosted results page.
- From now on the value of an og:description tag is indexed if the meta description tag is missing or empty.
August 17th, 2018
- Our WordPress plugin got updated with a new shortcode: [addsearch]. Use the shortcode to add multiple search widgets to your posts, pages, and navigation.
- Widget view and Results page translated to Brazilian Portuguese
- Improved the way apostrophes are handled, especially on French websites. Contact us if you have had problems with apostrophes and you want to try the new method.
August 3rd, 2018
July 17th, 2018
- Added possibility to pass custom elements from HTML pages to the Search API. E.g. a page can have a meta field: <meta name=”author” content=”John Doe” />. The Search API can return the value (John Doe) with the search result
- Fixed the hashbang (#!) handling for those still using it (we can also crawl real single-page apps or AJAX sites, e.g. built with React or AngularJS)
- Fixed the “page limit exceeded” warning on the Dashboard. Contact us to get as large quota as needed 🙂
June 21st, 2018
- New website out! Contact us if you have any issues with the site
- Major performance improvements to statistics dashboard
June 14th, 2018
- A big one: AJAX crawling is launched to Enterprise customers. Contact us if you need a search for a single-page app, such as React or AngularJS app, or you load content with JavaScript
- Another big one: E-commerce features launched to beta. Includes e.g. indexing and showing pricing information in search results. Contact us if you’re interested to try this out on your web store.
- Search algorithm changes: Proximity boost tweaked to promote multi-word matches with a small distance between the words. E.g. “big dog” boosts documents containing “dog that is big” and “big angry dog” along with the exact match “big dog”
May 24th, 2018
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