There’s no denying that the digital age is only getting more advanced by the day. And as it does, your digital presence, especially your website, needs to keep up. That starts with delivering a powerful search experience. Because if visitors can’t find what they need quickly, they won’t stick around. They’ll head straight to the next best option.
This is why a poorly performing search experience can cost you way more than you can think - your conversions, retention, and brand trust are at risk! This is where SearchStax comes in - a revolutionary, cloud-native search platform.
SearchStax is modernizing the way teams build, manage, and optimize search experiences. If you’re managing content-heavy portals on Drupal, running commerce sites, or leveraging large-scale enterprise applications, SearchStax simplifies delivering high-performing, relevant, and scalable search faster.
In this blog, we’ll walk you through what makes SearchStax a revolutionary change in the digital age that smoothens your search experience.
What is SearchStax
In technical terms, SearchStax is a powerful cloud platform offering Managed Solr-as-a-Service and also, a Search Experience Platform (SEP). Its job is to simplify deployment, management, and optimization of search engines. Most particularly, SearchStax blends with Apache Solr without the necessity of deep infrastructural knowledge or DevOps intervention.
Its role can be two-fold:
- SearchStax Managed Search - A completely managed Solr hosting and scaling solution that manages infrastructure and performance responsibilities.
- SearchStax Search Experience - A low-code/no-code search UX layer allowing businesses to tweak, tune, and personalize search experiences in real time.
No more complex Solr configurations, backups, and monitoring tools now that you have SearchStax to deliver relevant search results that lead to solid business outcomes.
Why traditional search isn’t trending anymore
With all modern solutions around you, (almost) anything traditional makes no practical sense.
Most built-in or open-source search options aren’t effectively scalable. Without efficient tunability, appropriate user behavior insights, and customization abilities, it can be challenging to fit into the modern market. Additionally, they may even call for heavy developer involvement for minor UI changes.
Thanks to SearchStax, all the complexity is minimized into a user-friendly platform for business teams to take control over speed and performance completely hassle-free.
How is SearchStax revolutionizing the search experience
Let’s discuss the features that make SearchStax a standout partner, uplifting your search experience:
Fast, easy to set up with managed Solr
SearchStax offers fully managed Solr clusters out of the box. It doesn’t need any manual provisioning, server maintenance, or cloud infrastructure. You also don’t need any monitoring or backups. Simply deploy new environments in the minimum time and scale effortlessly with growing traffic. If your business wants to accelerate time-to-market, this is your best solution.
Search experience platform for businesses
No more submitting tickets to IT for updating search results. With SearchStax SEP, the non-code/low-code teams can easily adjust relevance and ranking with the help of a simple UI. You can add synonyms, promote results, or block spam. Non-technical users can also conduct A/B testing for refined search outcomes, visually customize facets, filters, and suggestions.
In simple words, your search optimization efforts need not rely on engineers for every minor tweak.
Smarter customization and focused tuning
With its search bar, your search isn’t a simple query but a conversation where SearchStax makes searching more meaningful. It implements behavior-based boosting, audience segmentation, custom relevance scoring, and location and role-based personalization. These tools deliver more focused search results, rather than generic ones, delivering hyper-relevant content that your users are more interested in.
Optimized search based on insights
Relevant search results need rich data analytics. SearchStax provides you with the data you need. It shows you the results users are searching for, the searches where no results can be found, which search results are actually clicked on, and where users usually drop-off. With this data, SearchStax allows you to make informed decisions, improving your search journey with higher engagement and conversion rates.
High performance and reliability for enterprises
SearchStax is meant for high scalability. The features that make it scalable are its high availability architecture, role-based access controls, global deployment options (AWS, Azure, GCP), automated failover and backups, and VPC peering and SSL encryption. With such a bunch of robust features, you can confidently rely on every deployment irrespective of the number of sites you may be managing.
SearchStax and Drupal - A game-changer
Drupal and SearchStax can be a powerful pair. True, Drupal’s built-in search is functional. However, it can struggle with large-scale performance due to heavily loaded data structures or advanced personalization features. Enter SearchStax. And here’s how it gives a whole new dimension to Drupal search functionality:
- Managed Apache Solr - Whether it provisioning, security, and scaling, SearchStax simplifies it for your Drupal developers to focus on delivering an experience rather than being stuck with infrastructure.
- Drupal integration modules - There’s also the SearchStax Drupal module, which works seamlessly. Integrating the module with Drupal core’s Search API and facet modules allows your content and fields to directly index into the service of SearchStax’s Solr.
- Smoother search experiences - Indexing and query speed drastically improve with the integration of Drupal and SearchStax, making websites more responsive and search-friendly.
- Control over business - Marketers and editors get more control with SEP and can make minor tweaks into the search behavior without any technical help.
Who can use SearchStax
Did you know that there has been a 25% surge in search-driven conversions and a 50% drop in zero-result queries using SearchStax? With minimum reliance on DevOps, you get faster deployment times, reducing it from weeks to minutes, and better workflow alignment among marketing and technical teams with SearchStax.
SearchStax isn’t necessarily for the big leagues. It’s meant for you if you want to simplify your old, complex, and critical customer journey. If you’re dealing with any of these, then SearchStax is your tool:
- You’re struggling with search personalization and A/B testing
- You have a complex infrastructure with Solr
- Your website is loaded with large content volumes or SKUs
- Your Drupal website needs to be faster with a more powerful search backend
- You want global visibility
- Your marketers need more UX control
Final thoughts
SearchStax is reinventing the search mechanism. Together with managed Solr hosting with a strong UX optimization layer, it allows developers and business teams to build modern, scalable, and customer-oriented search experiences. It finds the perfect balance, being the technical muscle optimizing for developers and the intuitive control for marketers.
From higher education to e-commerce to healthcare, SearchStax is the tool we believe is aligned with the mission of making enterprises more powerful, manageable, and impactful than ever.
Looking for a powerful integration with SearchStax? Talk to us and we can help you optimize your website’s search potential to the next level.
