Expanded Search

For most Athos Commerce sites, we require every search term to be found in a product's searchable data to show in results. This is to ensure the best relevancy and is called "strict search". In some cases, sites can break this rule when there would be zero search results; instead, they fall back to a "loose search", in which at least one searched word must be found in a product, but not all.

Expanded search occurs when a search falls back to a loose search only when there are zero results for the initial strict search.

Interested in this feature? There are careful considerations to be made before committing to this behavior on your site. Please reach out to your customer success representative to learn more. 

Tip: Also reference the Expanded Searches report, which shows how often expanded search occurs on your site.