Cludo Search, Configuration vs. Customization
Cludo Search - Configuration vs. Customization

Cludo Search, Configuration vs. Customization

Sara Kelzer Sara Kelzer

Sara Kelzer

Mom | INFP-T | Senior AE | GTM, Sales Enablement & Efficiencies | I Help Higher Ed with AI-Powered Site Search, 43% of Visitors go Immediately to Search

Published May 24, 2024
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Cludo offers multiple ways to implement our site search solution but this blog will focus on our two out-of-the-box search templates which give a nice blend of both easy configuration and optional low code customizations as well as the estimated time to complete setup.

Other implementations: we have an A-M-A-Z-I-N-G Professional Services team that can help implement a custom design for you as well as API and React component library if you'd rather customize on your own and want more flexibility than our out-of-the-box solution.

 🚀Boostings ⚙️Configuration ⏱️ 5 mins

Example Boosting Configuration

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Alt Text: Screenshot of Cludo's boosting configuration - field search matching title 150% boosting, field search matching meta description 110% boosting, file downboost 30%.


🔤❌Misspellings ⚙️Configuration ⏱️ >1 min

Example Misspelling Configuration

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Alt Text: Screenshot of misspelling configuration within Cludo's MyCludo account for anqlytics vs. analytics, autosuggest vs. autocomplete, fature vs. feature.

🌫️ Synonyms ⚙️Configuration ⏱️ >1 min

Example Synonym Configuration

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Alt Text: Screenshot of synonym configuration within Cludo's MyCludo account for aws, awwss, cloud-based, host, hosting

🧠Intelligent Autocomplete ⚙️Configuration ⏱️ >1 min

Example Intelligent Autocomplete

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Alt Text: Screenshot of Cludo's Site Search with search of banner and the search bar suggesting other searches like "how to set up a banner"

🎙️ Voice Search 💻 Customization ⏱️ >1 min

Example Voice Search

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Alt Text: Screenshot of Cludo's search bar with a microphone for voice search.


📑 Web Content Highlighter 💻 Customization ⏱️ 5 min

Example Web Content Highlighter

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Alt Text: A result being clicked after searching for "banner" with web content highlighter enabled.

🏴 Banner ⚙️Configuration ⏱️ 5 min

Example Banner Configuration

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Alt Text: Cludo Banner Configuration Screenshot

Example Banner Frontend

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Alt Text: Cludo Search Screenshot. Person has searched for "banner" and a banner saying "this is a banner" is top of the results page. lol.

💬 Instant Suggestions ⚙️Configuration & 💻 Customization ⏱️ 1+ min

Example Instant Suggestion Configuration

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Alt Text: screenshot of Cludo's instant suggestion setup and option to turn on/off recent searches

Example Instant Suggestions Frontend


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Alt Text: Screenshot of Cludo's Instant Suggestions "Banners" "Crawlers" "Engines" etc.

🥇Page Rankings ⚙️Configuration ⏱️ 1 min

Example Page Ranking Configuration

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Alt Text: screenshot of configuration of page rankings for Cludo search "banners" shows manual ranking for result 1, 2, 3, and 4.

⚡Quicklinks ⚙️Configuration ⏱️ 1 min

Example Quicklink Configuration

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Alt text: quicklink configuration for "outage" redirects to


Example Quicklink Frontend

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Alt Text: Gif showing a search for "outage" and a quicklink redirecting to the Cludo status page, bypassing the results page.

👻 Intelligent 404 ⚙️Configuration & 💻 Customization ⏱️ 1 min

Example 404 Frontend

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Alt text: Intelligent 404 page recommending other pages to go to.


🔀 Related Searches 💻 Customization ⏱️ 1 min

Example Related Searches Frontend

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🤖 Gen AI Site Search ⚙️Configuration & 💻 Customization ⏱️ Professional Services Sets Up

Example Gen AI Site Search Frontend

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👬 Guided Conversations ⚙️Configuration & 💻 Customization ⏱️ Professional Services Sets Up

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🤖 Q&A Chat + Assistant ⚙️Configuration & ⏱️ Professional Services Sets Up

Example Q&A Chat + Assistant Frontend

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Alt text: screenshot of Cludo's assistant and q&A chatbot

👥 Audiences ⚙️Configuration & 💻 Customization

🕷️ Crawler ⚙️Configuration ⏱️ 1 min

🚂 Engine ⚙️Configuration ⏱️ 1 min


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