To help shoppers obtain useful results from storefront searches, you can configure several of the features that enable them to perform the searches.
You configure these search features using the Search REST API described in this chapter. Through the Search REST API, you can configure:
A thesaurus for shoppers’ search terms.
Which index fields are examined as possible matches for search terms entered by storefront shoppers.
How matches are made between search terms and index fields.
How search results are sorted.
The locales supported for this application, specified by valid IETF BCP 47 locale codes.
You can also export, edit, and import the configuration of relevance ranking strategies, in XML format. Relevance ranking strategies determine the order of records in search results.
