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2025

Fixes and improvements to Site Search 360, grouped by month, newest first.

December 2025​

Search results

  • Product codes no longer autocorrected — Alphanumeric product code queries are no longer corrected to unrelated terms.
  • Page Boosting works with negative values — Numeric Data Point boosting applies correctly when negative values are involved.
  • Attribute queries work without units — Queries that reference product attributes no longer need the unit to return the right results.
  • Garbled characters in results fixed — Characters that appeared as garbled symbols in results now display correctly.
  • Sorting dropdown has an accessible label — The sorting dropdown now has a proper label for screen readers.
  • Broken ARIA reference fixed — The aria-labelledby attribute in search results references the intended element.

Control Panel

  • Reordering in Result Manager saves correctly — Reordering items in a Result Manager mapping no longer causes save failures or search errors.

November 2025​

Search results

  • Query rewriting no longer limits results — Queries are no longer rewritten in a way that severely reduced the number of results.
  • Synonym title matches are consistent — Title matches for synonym queries return the correct results.
  • Mobile close button no longer overlaps the search box — On narrow screens, the close button in the overlay search no longer covers the search input.

Crawling & indexing

  • Deleted pages are removed from the index — Pages removed from the source are cleared from the index on the next re-index.
  • Content extraction fixed for specific pages — Pages that failed to index because of incorrect content extraction are indexed again.

Control Panel

  • Index export shows blacklisted URLs correctly — Blacklisted URLs no longer appear as "Indexed" in the index export.

Analytics

  • Search Map display settings fixed — Display parameters and Data Point value widths behave correctly in every configuration.

October 2025​

Search results

  • Short words no longer trigger unrelated semantic matches — Short search terms no longer match semantically unrelated words.

Crawling & indexing

  • Page details always available — Indexed pages no longer show "Could not load page details" until they are re-indexed.
  • Special characters extracted correctly — Special characters that showed up wrongly in part of the indexed results are now extracted and displayed correctly.

Analytics

  • Search Map loads again — The Search Map view loads correctly again.

API & security

  • API key management — You can generate, name and delete API keys under Account > API Access.
  • Access control for search endpoints — You can require authentication for the search API endpoints, so knowing a Site ID is no longer enough to query them.

API keys created before October 28, 2025 stayed valid until the end of March 2026. Use keys created under Account > API Access.

September 2025​

Search results

  • Synonyms applied as configured — Synonym rules are reliably applied to search results.
  • No more overly broad semantic matches — Queries no longer return semantically incorrect results caused by overly broad concept matching.
  • "Copy link to list position" restores the scroll position — Opening a copied link to a position in the result list scrolls back to that position.
  • Keyboard focus no longer trapped in fullscreen search — In Chrome, keyboard focus no longer gets stuck in fullscreen search mode.

Crawling & indexing

  • Scheduled re-indexing runs again — Scheduled re-indexes trigger without manual intervention.
  • Sitemap re-index is stable — Pages no longer briefly disappear and reappear during sitemap re-indexes.
  • Emptying the index removes every page — Non-API pages no longer remain in search results after the index is emptied.

Control Panel

  • Filters can be deleted — Deleting a filter no longer fails silently.
  • Disabling update validity works — Turning off the update validity setting no longer returns a server error.
  • Testing image extraction rules no longer freezes the browser — Testing an image extraction rule on certain pages no longer freezes the browser.

Account & billing

  • Users can be added to projects — Project owners can add new users to their project again.

July 2025​

Search results

  • otherName parameter applied — The otherName API parameter now affects search results.
  • Unused article number attribute no longer affects results — The sxIdentifierAttribute field no longer influences results when it isn't set as the article number.

Crawling & indexing

  • Crawler keeps CAS login sessions — The crawler no longer sends a malformed cookie header, which caused it to lose the session on sites using CAS authentication.

Control Panel

  • Design & Publish settings panel no longer goes blank — Switching tabs while the Suggestions customization menu is open no longer leaves the settings panel blank.

June 2025​

Search results

  • Filter counts are correct — Filter counts in search results display correctly.
  • Renaming a result group keeps the result count — Renaming a result group no longer changes the number of results shown.

Crawling & indexing

  • Indexing no longer blocked by a stale lock — Projects can be indexed again when the system wrongly reported that indexing was already running.

May 2025​

Search results

  • Snippets stay visible when toggling grouped results — Turning grouped results on or off no longer hides search snippets.

Control Panel

  • Pass On attribute setting is back — The Pass On attribute setting is available in the project configuration again.

April 2025​

Search results

  • Wildcard search shows all date filter options — Wildcard searches show every filter option for date-type fields.

March 2025​

Search results

  • "Frequently searched" and "popular results" labels translated — These labels now follow the configured site language.

v15 plugin launch​

  • Redesigned search UI
  • Navigation improvements and new options
  • Mini PDP for product search
  • Improved filter UX
  • Replaced Sass variables with CSS variables for better customizability
  • Accessibility improvements
  • Added structured microdata to result cards
  • Read Introducing our new search plugin on our blog to learn more