12 Ways to improve your search index via a crawler or API | Algolia

Search indexing is crucial for enhancing user experience on websites. It involves mapping search queries to web pages or documents and can be created through web crawlers or APIs. Full-text search entails indexing each word on a site, while AI-powered search engines understand context to provide richer results. There are two primary ways to build a search engine index: using a search crawler or directly pulling data from a database via APIs. Optimizing a search index can be done in various ways such as adding open graph tags, schema markup, and enhancing the index with off-site data like product ratings and inventory levels. Personalization of search results is also important to cater to individual customer preferences.