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Search Config Overview
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Search-Level Configurations
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Monitor and Optimize
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Search Backend - Final Challenge
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Monitor and Optimize | Yext Hitchhikers Platform

In this module, you’ll learn how to refine your search results — including the types of optimizations you can make and the tools you can use to make them. You’ll also learn how to debug search quality issues and how to monitor the performance of your experience, two key pieces of managing a Search experience that will lead you to making optimizations.

What you'll learn

  • Describe ways to improve search quality
  • Explain how to approach QA’ing and debugging your search experience
  • Demonstrate how to use the tools and available for debugging and improving search quality, including Search Merchandiser and Experience Training
  • Examine search terms and clusters to inform decisions on configuring search to improve search results
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1 hour 200 points
Part of:
search-backend

Unit 1: Search Optimizations

10 min, 20 points
completed

Unit 2: Debug the Backend

15 min, 20 points
completed

Unit 3: Experience Training

10 min, 20 points
completed

Unit 4: Search Merchandiser

10 min, 20 points
completed

Unit 5: Search Terms and Clusters

10 min, 20 points
completed

Unit 6: Search Analytics

5 min, 20 points
completed

assessment

Module Assessment

10 min, 100 points
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1 hour 200 points
Part of:
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