Guides, honest comparisons and product updates – everything we learn building search for WooCommerce.
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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.
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The Best AI Search Plugins for WooCommerce (2026)
Every WooCommerce AI search option compared honestly – including our own plugin and its competitors – on the criteria that matter: UI replacement, BYO key, free tier.
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.