AI Product Search for WooCommerce – Motive Commerce Search vs Relevanssi – A Better Search

Motive Commerce Search is a feature-packed, lightning-fast AI product search plugin for WooCommerce that empowers your shop’s growth. Get AI search that improves every result automatically, going beyond keywords to understand real intent and surface what shoppers want and where your biggest opportunities lie. With Motive, you can chat with your search analytics and ask your shop anything for unique insights. AI Mode gives you fully conversational search, included in all plans. Upload content so AI Mode finds answers in your content, not just your products. Built on the Empathy AI private cloud. Free from Big Tech. With the Motive Playboard, you have total control over how your products are displayed, ordered, filtered and found. And with Backroom, you get access to key actions and analytics overlaid right in your search results – perfect for analytics on the go. A QUICK LOOK ✅ AI Mode: Fully conversational search built in. No extra cost. ✅ AI-Assisted Search: The search bar you have, only better. Embellished with AI. ✅ Backroom: Search analytics you can talk to. Ask about search data, get insights. ✅ Playboard: Boost and bury products. Set rules. Control every search result. ✅ Proud to be free from Big Tech: Your data is never used to train Big Tech AI. A DEEPER LOOK AI Mode: → With AI Mode, shoppers describe what they want, refine as they go, and compare options the same way they’d talk to someone who knows your catalogue inside out. AI Related Tags: → Type a couple of words and AI Related Tags appear instantly as clickable refinements that take shoppers straight to what they’re looking for. AI Carousels: → When a search returns no results, an AI Carousel activates automatically to surface products that match what your shopper means, not just what they typed. No setup and no dead-ends. Questions AI: → When a search comes up short, Questions AI surfaces smart refinements right alongside results, nudging shoppers toward the products they’re actually looking for. Content search in AI Mode: → Upload content so AI Mode finds answers in your content, not just your products. No AI hallucinations for better peace of mind and control. Backroom: → Real-time clicks and add-to-cart data with Backroom, mapped directly onto your catalogue. Boost a bestseller. Bury a dud. No dashboard. No second tab. Just search, see, decide. Mobile friendly analytics and quick actions. Backroom AI Chat → Type what you want to know – “what are my shoppers not finding?” “what’s my worst-performing search this week?” – and get the answer with Backroom’s AI Chat. No reports. No guesswork. Just the insight, when you need it. Better analytics: → When logged in to Backroom, your own searches aren’t counted in your analytics and you don’t accidentally pay for the searches you make in your own catalogue. Intuitive Filters: → Let shoppers narrow results instantly by price, size, colour, brand and more. As part of Motive’s advanced search plugin, these dynamic filters integrate seamlessly into your ecommerce search bar experience. Popular Products: → Show best-selling and trending items the moment a shopper clicks your ecommerce search bar. This feature automatically surfaces high-demand products or lets you handpick and promote specific items to suit your marketing campaigns and boost conversions. Promotional Banners: → Show targeted banners and special offers right within search results. This feature turns your ecommerce search solution into a powerful upsell and cross-sell engine, driving more revenue per visit. Instant Results: → Show product matches from the very first keystroke to keep shoppers engaged, increase add to carts, and reduce bounce rates. Look and feel → Customisable layouts, colors, and typography to match your brand. Motive’s ecommerce search bar combines form and function with a sleek, intuitive interface that enhances the shopping journey. Boost and Bury products → Set the rules that decide how search results are displayed to your shoppers. Boost or bury products, categories, or brands—either across all searches or for specific queries—and even tailor rules for different languages. Visual Customisations → Display your brand identity across the whole search layer adding your font, colours, logo and more. Change the layout of search results, image fit, image size and more at the click of a button. Customisable filters → Choose which product attributes shoppers can filter by – size, color, price, brand, and more – and control the display order of filters and their values. Synonyms → Boost findability by managing custom synonyms and term mappings. The Synonyms tool in our advanced ecommerce search solution ensures shoppers locate products effortlessly – even when they use different terminology. Custom CSS → Apply bespoke styles with direct Custom CSS injection. This powerful feature offers designers and developers full control to perfect every detail of your ecommerce search interface. Redirections → Shoppers often search for terms like Help, Returns or Shop Locations. With Redirections, easily send your customers to non-product pages from your search. Mobile version included → Shoppers can search on any device without you paying more. Included in all plans. FULLY TRANSPARENT WITH NO SURPRISES One flat rate with no hidden extras: Choose the pricing plan that matches your shop’s size, goals and needs. Full access to all features: No matter what plan you select, you’ll have access to all features, with upgrades and support included. Search that’s priced by… searches! Don’t be stung by a provider that charges by requests. With Motive Commerce Search, you pay by what matters most to your and your shoppers: searching and finding. Dedicated customer support: A team of real people to help you with any questions you may have. Search that’s never switched off: Motive Commerce Search will never switch off your service, even if your shop outperforms the plan you’ve purchased. WHAT CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING “Motive always came recommended by the different communities we enquired through. We trialed a few other providers before switching, however they were under-featured, clunky and over-priced. When we trialed Motive the on-boarding was the smoothest I’d ever seen and we were able to get a workable search implementation almost instantly – it just worked and most importantly our customers loved it.” JH – United Kingdom on Trustpilot “I totally recommend this smart search engine solution to anyone running an online store. It’s reliable, fast, super easy to use, and cheaper than the other options out there. Plus, their customer support team is awesome. Really professional and helpful. That makes all the difference!” – Global Neoprene – France on Trustpilot “The integration was surprisingly quick and easy, working seamlessly with WooCommerce. What really impressed us was how customizable the search tool is – it blended in so well with our website’s design that it felt like a built-in feature, keeping everything looking consistent without sacrificing any functionality. Our experience with Motive eCommerce Search and the team behind it has been incredibly positive, directly improving navigation and customer satisfaction in our stores.” – Victor – Spain on Trustpilot CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Linkedin GOT A QUESTION? We’ve got it all covered in our Motive Docs.

Relevanssi replaces the standard WordPress search with a better search engine, with lots of features and configurable options. You’ll get better results, better presentation of results – your users will thank you. This is the free version of Relevanssi. There’s also Relevanssi Premium, which has added features. For more information about Premium, see Relevanssi.com. Do note that using Relevanssi may require large amounts (hundreds of megabytes) of database space (for a reasonable estimate, multiply the size of your wp_posts database table by three). If your hosting setup has a limited amount of space for database tables, using Relevanssi may cause problems. In those cases use of Relevanssi cannot be recommended. Key features Search results sorted in the order of relevance, not by date. Fuzzy matching: match partial words, if complete words don’t match. Find documents matching either just one search term (OR query) or require all words to appear (AND query). Search for phrases with quotes, for example “search phrase”. Create custom excerpts that show where the hit was made, with the search terms highlighted. Highlight search terms in the documents when user clicks through search results. Search comments, tags, categories and custom fields. Multisite friendly. bbPress support. Gutenberg friendly. Advanced features Adjust the weighting for titles, tags and comments. Log queries, show most popular queries and recent queries with no hits. Restrict searches to categories and tags using a hidden variable or plugin settings. Index custom post types and custom taxonomies. Index the contents of shortcodes. Google-style “Did you mean?” suggestions based on successful user searches. Support for WPML multi-language plugin and Polylang. Support for s2member membership plugin, Members, Groups, Simple Membership and other membership plugins. Advanced filtering to help hacking the search results the way you want. Search result throttling to improve performance on large databases. Disable indexing of post content and post titles with a simple filter hook. Premium features (only in Relevanssi Premium) Indexing attachment content (PDF, Office, Open Office). Improved spelling correction in “Did you mean?” suggestions. Searching across multiple sites in the same multisite installation. Search and index user profiles. Search and index taxonomy term pages (categories, tags, custom taxonomies). Search and index arbitrary columns in wp_posts MySQL table. Assign weights to any post types and taxonomies. Assign extra weight to new posts. Let the user choose between AND and OR searches, use + and – operator (AND and NOT). Export and import settings. WP CLI commands. Related posts. Redirects for searches. Thanks Cristian Damm for tag indexing, comment indexing, post/page exclusion and general helpfulness. Marcus Dalgren for UTF-8 fixing. Warren Tape for 2.5.5 fixes. Mohib Ebrahim for relentless bug hunting. John Calahan for extensive 4.0 beta testing.