Fast, precise ecommerce search tailored to every shopper

Built specifically for ecommerce, Personalized Search shows each shopper the relevant products they're most likely to want first, in line with your business priorities.

hiking backpack
Shopper preferenceBrand affinity: Northpeak
Corvo Alpine 32L $149
Kestrel Trail 30L $119
Northpeak Ultralight 30L $139
Northpeak Ridge 28L $129
Ecommerce search relevance

Strong relevance out of the box, tuned by your team

Personalized Search matches every query to your product data and reflects catalog changes within minutes. Your team fine-tunes relevance without code or engineering help.

BUILT INTO THE ENGINE

Language processing

Stemming, compound words,
and singular and plural forms,
so “knife” also finds “knives”.

Error tolerance

Common typos, such as two swapped letters, still lead shoppers to the right products.

27 languages

Supported out of the box, for stores that sell in several languages.

ADJUSTED BY YOUR TEAM, NO CODE

Searchable fields

Choose which product data search uses and set the priority for each field.

AI synonyms

AI suggests synonyms from what shoppers search for, then buy. Your team approves, edits, or adds its own.

Redirects

Send specific queries straight to a page, such as a size guide.

For descriptive and natural-language queries, such as “warm layers for a winter hike”, add AI Search.

Nosto Personalized Search returns hiking backpacks for a misspelled query using error tolerance, stemming, searchable fields and AI synonyms.
Personalization for onsite search

One search. A different top row for every shopper.

Two shoppers can type the same words and want different products. Personalized Search puts the products most likely to suit each shopper first to help turn more searches into purchases.

ONE-TO-ONE

For each shopper

Results follow each shopper’s own affinities, such as preferred brands, sizes, colors, or collections.

ONE-TO-FEW

For audience segments

Set rules for groups of visitors based on their lifecycle stage, affinities, or traffic source.

You decide when personalization applies and how strongly it influences ranking.

Nosto search results for trail running shoes, ranked by a shopper’s size 9 affinity or paid social segment rules.
Merchandising in search results

Keep search results aligned with your business goals

Rank results by seasonality, stock levels, conversion rate, or profit margin, so search delivers the conversion and margin

Combine and weight criteria

Build each merchandising rule from one-to-one personalization, product attributes, and performance metrics, and set how much each one counts.

Pin, promote, or demote products

The rule moves products up or down automatically, and you can pin products to fixed positions. Apply it to all searches or to chosen queries, campaigns, or segments.

Rules that run on real-time data

Rules apply at every search, using current stock and each shopper’s live behavior, so rankings stay on strategy with less manual reordering.

Nosto search merchandising rule weighting new collections, profit margin and conversion rate, with a jacket pinned to position one.
2X+

conversion rate on search pages during sales, using a dedicated merchandising rule

Control and optimization

See why each product ranks, and test what works better

Preview changes before they go live, understand how every result was ranked, and measure what improves performance.

Search preview

Check results for any query or segment, with rules and personalization applied.

Score insights

See how merchandising rules and keyword matches affect each product’s position.

Search analytics

Track search performance and spot queries that need attention.
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A/B testing

Compare ranking and merchandising setups to find what converts best.

Nosto search preview showing hiking backpack rankings with score breakdowns for keyword matching, personalization and merchandising.
43%

increase in conversion rate by A/B testing search

“A/B testing empowered us to make data-driven decisions that directly impacted our conversion rate.”

Search is no longer a black box for us. Nosto lets us quickly tune what shows up and why based on real performance.”

Rebecca Armstrong,
Director of Ecommerce,
Credo Beauty

Nosto is recognized in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery

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Rated by users on G2
Implementation

Live in weeks, without stretching your development team

Customize your setup in Nosto’s frontend code editor for quick deployment, or build advanced search experiences with our API, pre-built libraries, and documentation.

Fully compatible with Shopify and Shopify Plus, with integrations for a wide range of other ecommerce platforms.

Overall, it took less than a month to get Search up. That, and there wasn’t any undue burden or stress on our development resources.”

Turn more of your
searches into sales

Not getting the conversion you expect from search? Tell us where it falls short, and we'll show you how Personalized Search can help.

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