Hybrid search built for real-world queries

Combine keyword and semantic search to handle both exact matches and nuanced queries. NeuralSearch helps your customers find exactly what they need, even when they don't use the exact terminology in your catalog.

Better relevance, instantly

Provide your customers with better results for complex and natural language queries. NeuralSearch combines results from both keyword and vector search approaches in milliseconds for optimal relevance.

Capture the long-tail

50-70% of all search queries are long-tail.By going beyond term matching to handle complex and natural language queries, NeuralSearch automatically connects customers with the right products across the entire query spectrum to unlock more revenue for every query.

Goodbye "no results"

Expand product discovery beyond exact term matches. NeuralSearch connects related queries and products, even when they don’t share keywords.

Power agentic and conversational experiences

NeuralSearch provides the semantic understanding needed to support conversational and agent-driven interactions. It enables assistants and generative systems to retrieve relevant, grounded results in real time, so responses are based on your data, not just generated text.

Maintain relevance as your index grows

NeuralSearch adapts to how users search, so new products and content remain discoverable without constant manual tuning.

Reduce manual tuning

NeuralSearch handles spelling errors and synonyms for you, eliminating the tedious work of building a synonym library and writing additional rules just so results can be found.

Transparent results

Understand and control how AI impacts your search results.

Presets

NeuralSearch Presets eliminate complexity and help customers get started with AI search by giving you ready-to-use configurations tailored for common business scenarios.

Build-your-own model

Change the NeuralSearch and keyword ranking weights to dial up or down how a result should be ranked.

Learned intent

Go beyond static semantic models by incorporating real user behavior into search results. NeuralSearch continuously learns from engagement signals to prioritize what actually performs, while still giving you full visibility and control over ranking.

A/B testing

Use A/B testing to try different AI and keyword algorithms to deliver measurably better results.

Milliseconds matter

NeuralSearch delivers semantic and keyword results in milliseconds, so users get relevant answers instantly even for complex queries.Unlike traditional vector-based systems, NeuralSearch uses neural hashing to compress vector data without losing meaningful information. This allows you to run semantic search at high speed and scale, without the performance tradeoffs typically associated with vector search.

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Search beyond keywords