Search More Like This is a feature that allows users to discover relevant items by showcasing products that closely match their search. It improves the precision and relevance of the suggested items.
This feature sends a request every time a user clicks on it.
How Does Search More Like This Work?
Search More Like This uses the attributes in your product feed to refine results and display more accurate related products. This feature works best with proper field categorization in the feed fields. Learn more on the data feed.
When activated, a magnifying glass icon titled "Similar results" will appear on the product card. The products displayed will be influenced by the selected fields from your feed, such as “category”, “brand”, “title”, or “description”, or other fields of your choice, ensuring more relevant suggestions.
If you are not obtaining the expected results, contact us through our contact page.
Once active, this is how it will look like in your layer:
If you want to use another title or need to translate the "Similar results" title beside the magnifying glass icon, you will be able to change it or add it in Translations.
How to Activate Search More Like This - New or Non-Customized Layers
- Go to your Admin Panel > Search > Layer Settings
- Choose the SE in the top bar dropdown menu > choose the layer in which you want to enable it > click on "Configuration".
- Scroll down to "Complements" > check the Desktop and/or Mobile box to enable Search More Like This, add the fields of your choice, and save the changes.
How to Activate Search More Like This - Old or Customized Layers
If you want to activate Search More Like This and your layer was created before March 24, 2025, or contains customizations in the CSS or template, you might not see it working.
If you want to just test it out, please create a new layer to try it!
Otherwise, if you want to test on your current layer, and it isn’t work, please contact us.
How does it behave?
The Search More Like This functionality applies to all layer types and Category Merchandising. Once activated, you will notice a magnifying glass showing on all product cards.
When the “Similar Products” button is clicked, a modal overlay on top of the current layer will be displayed, with the following content characteristics below.
Content of the modal on desktop and mobile
On desktop:
- In the top-left corner, the reference product, which is the product used to generate similar items.
- New filters will be available, applicable exclusively to the results from the Similar Products.
- An independent sorting option will be included, affecting only the similar product results.
- The number of results will be limited to 40 products without pagination, accessible via scroll.
- The clicked reference product will be displayed first among all results when using the “Relevance” sorting. When the sorting is changed, it will be repositioned according to the remaining 39 results.
The icon of the “Similar Products” will be displayed from brands & categories sequence, and search results, but not from the initial search. You can change your search sequence by following the steps here!
On mobile:
The interaction is similar to desktop: a modal overlay is displayed on top of the current layer. The reference product is displayed at the top of the results:
- The reference product will appear at the top of the results.
- Filters will apply only to the similar product results.
- Results will be limited to 40 products without pagination.
- The clicked reference product will be displayed first among all results when using the “Relevance” sorting. When the sorting is changed, it will be repositioned according to the remaining 39 results.
Managing Products with Grouped Variants - Search More Like This
When working with products that use variant grouping, fields like color may behave differently than expected when using the Search More Like This feature.
When performing a search, variants grouped by color will display only the parent product with its image. This behavior is maintained even if the parent product does not have a specific image assigned, and it will use the image from one of its variants.
When using Search More Like This, the feature references the parent product to display similar results when clicking the magnifying glass icon. The image shown may differ from what is expected when searching for similar products.
To ensure proper behavior, we recommend following one of these guidelines:
- Avoid grouping by color if it interferes with variant visibility.
- Group by fields like size instead of color to ensure all color variants are displayed.
If you are still experiencing difficulties to display the expected results when using products with variants, contact us through our contact page.