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Why VTEX search engine ignores some terms
Why VTEX search engine ignores some terms
Published on 1/24/2019
Last update on 8/19/2024

Warning: VTEX has two search options - VTEX search and VTEX Intelligent Search. This article refers to the VTEX search. To learn more about the VTEX Intelligent Search application, see this track.

The article How does VTEX search work? illustrates the main rules that the search engine algorithm uses to display and prioritize the products based on a search term.

If your case does not fit the scenarios described in this article, probably it’s because the search term that brought you here is on the list of blocked words on the VTEX search engine.

It’s common for people to use pronouns, articles, adverbs, etc., when doing an ecommerce search. However, some of these terms do not make sense when cataloging a product.

For example: If a user looks for the term "A pair of Nike sneakers", for the search engine, the words "A" and "of" are not important. However, the words "sneakers" and "Nike" are. So, the search engine ignores the words that are not important and applies the search using only the important terms.

Thus, the VTEX search engine contains a list of blocked (unimportant) words that assist in optimizing the result, as illustrated in the above example.

See below the complete list of blocked terms.

Currently, the blocked words list contains only words in portuguese.


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