Guides, honest comparisons and product updates – everything we learn building search for WooCommerce.
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The free plan just got 5× more room
AI Search’s free plan now includes 10,000 embeddings per month (up from 2,000), and the daily cap is gone. If you were on the fence about whether the plugin was for you because the limits were tight, this is that fence removed.
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Shopify vs WooCommerce Search: How to Get Semantic Search on WordPress
Shopify positions semantic search as the new baseline for e-commerce, but it is gated behind higher-tier plans. WooCommerce doesn’t ship it by default — but adding it to a WordPress store takes a plugin, not a platform migration.
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How to fix WordPress search returning no results
WordPress default search runs a MySQL LIKE against three columns. That is why it misses so much – and here is how to diagnose which zero-result queries you should actually fix first.
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text-embedding-3-small vs large: why AI Search Pro finds what shoppers really mean
AI Search Free runs on OpenAI’s text-embedding-3-small. Standard and Pro upgrade to text-embedding-3-large – here is what that means for your store’s search results, in plain English.
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AI Search 1.30.0: Products Are Now Found Through Their Categories and Tags
A shopper searching “trainers” now finds products tagged “Sneakers” – even when the description never uses the word. How the second retrieval pass works, and why the cutoff is 0.45 and not 0.60.
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Anatomy of a Zero-Result Search
We dissect one real failed store search – ‘warm jacket for hiking’ – word by word: where default WordPress kills it, why shoppers do not retry, and what actually rescues it.
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What’s New in AI Search 1.27-1.28: Exact Matches and Tiered Results
SKU and title matches pinned first, keyword results never lost, and bulk indexing that explains its failures – what shipped in the two releases that changed how every result is ranked.
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How AI Search Actually Works, in Plain English
Embeddings, similarity and thresholds explained without equations: how semantic search matches what shoppers mean instead of the letters they type – and where it fails without a keyword safety net.
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Why WooCommerce Search Loses You Sales (And How to Fix It)
Search users are your highest-intent visitors, and default WooCommerce search fails them in predictable ways. What breaks, what free fixes help, and where semantic search fits.
Need AI Search customized for your project?
Custom ranking rules, integrations, migrations or a search audit – the plugin’s author takes on a limited number of client projects.
This link takes you to samuelsilva.pt, the personal site of Samuel Silva – AI Search’s developer and the right person for AI search customization on your project.