{"id":2008,"date":"2022-01-06T13:37:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T13:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2022-02-24T07:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T07:10:07","slug":"know-your-search-app-lifecycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/searchassist\/know-your-search-app-lifecycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Concepts and Search Experience Lifecycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Search operations are content intensive and highly data-driven. For efficient and accurate search results, businesses need to collate content from dependable sources that can cater to their search users\u2019 expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To understand search users\u2019 requirements, businesses must collect, organize and maintain the relevant content\u00a0 and associated parameters from all the diverse sources available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Search Assistant lifecycle is structured based on creating and maintaining Search Assistants for your organization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating Search Assistants and adding relevant content from various sources, defining indices, optimizing results, and tracking the performance, and enterprise Virtual Assistants.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maintaining Search Assistants includes <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">updating content, and re-defining the search experience for the end-user and deploying onto target channels<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">designing and running experiments to test various combinations of configurations to get the maximum value out of your Search Assistants. And if required, based on the outcomes of the experiment fine-tune the indices and repeat the experiments<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Create a Search Assistant<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create a customized Search Assistant for your organization to meet your objectives. A Search Assistant is a set of indexing and search configurations applied on a set of content sources along with custom business rules. SearchAssist allows you to build multiple Search Assistants, switch among Search Assistants in the making, launch them and monitor their performance. Refer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/manage-apps\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing Search Assistants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Add and Manage Sources<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SearchAssist allows you to add and manage content to your Search Assistant from diverse and multiple sources in various formats. Content sources include file uploads, crawling websites with desired frequency, structured data files, FAQs from files or websites and linked virtual assistants. Refer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/content-sources\/manage-sources\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing\u00a0 Content<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Manage Indices and Relevance<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the content has been added, the Search Assistant indexes the data for efficient retrieval. The ingested data from web pages, files, or database records passes through various stages of the indexing process. Indexing management allows you to transform the documents &amp; fields as per the business requirements. Refer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/managing-indices\/configuring-indices\/manage-indices\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manage relevance by fine tuning both the search and results components to refine the search results and present them in meaningful ways. Allow business priorities to be applied and generate custom responses for each query and position certain responses. This helps the end-user to view the most relevant and purposeful results at the same time aligned to the overall business objectives. Refer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/managing-relevance\/manage-relevance\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing Relevance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/personalization\/personalizing-results\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personalizing Results<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Design Search Experience<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Search Experience customization allows you to select the Search Interface\u00a0 between traditional and conversational user interfaces for searching.\u00a0 You can apply customized Result Templates on Results display to enhance the overall search experience. Refer\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/designing-search-experience\/search-experience1\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Designing Experience<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Analytics and Insights<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyzing the Search Assistant helps you understand if your search solution is yielding relevant results to your satisfaction. Analyze from the <\/span><b>Dashboard <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and assess the quality of User Engagement from the metrics like Search Insights and Results Insights. These insights further enable you to decide to amend the configuration for delivering better search experience and result outcomes. Refer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/analyzing-performance-concepts\/get-analytics-and-insights\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyzing Performance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Define Experiments<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Experiment helps determine which of different variants or the combination of search and index configurations performs better by presenting each version to live search users at random and analyzing the results. The winner of the experiment is determined by the click-through rate of the variations. Refer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/experimenting-variants\/experiment-with-a-b-testing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experimenting your Search Variants<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Deployment<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deployment refers to publishing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or launching<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Search Assistant configuration onto the target channel, a website or an app. This is a two-step process involving <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/manage-apps\/#Adding_Search_Assistant_Credentials\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adding credentials<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/manage-apps\/#Adding_Channels\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">activating the channels<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"w-post-elm post_navigation layout_simple inv_false\"><a class=\"post_navigation-item order_first to_prev\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/searchassist\/signup-and-create-your-first-search-app\/\" title=\"Getting Started\"><div class=\"post_navigation-item-arrow\"><\/div><div class=\"post_navigation-item-meta\">Previous Post<\/div><div class=\"post_navigation-item-title\"><span>Getting Started<\/span><\/div><\/a><a class=\"post_navigation-item order_second to_next\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/overview\/glossary-of-terms\/\" title=\"Glossary of Terms\"><div class=\"post_navigation-item-arrow\"><\/div><div class=\"post_navigation-item-meta\">Next Post<\/div><div class=\"post_navigation-item-title\"><span>Glossary of Terms<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Search operations are content intensive and highly data-driven. 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