AACsearch Blog
Engineering notes from the AACsearch team
Modern commerce stacks are decoupled — so why is search still bolted on? Here's how API-first architecture with AACSearch and AACsearch changes the game.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/22/2026
Shoppers who use site search convert 2-3x more than those who don't. Here's how to turn your search bar into a revenue engine with instant typeahead, faceted navigation, and smart analytics.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/20/2026
Vector search, semantic understanding, personalized results — AI is transforming how customers find products online. Here's what every e-commerce merchant needs to know in 2026.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/15/2026
AgencyHub, a digital agency serving mid-market e-commerce brands, uses AACsearch's multi-tenancy to deliver enterprise-grade search for 12 clients from a single dashboard — saving $4,000+/month in per-client infrastructure costs.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/3/2026
Other solutions is powerful but expensive — $500+/month at 1M searches. We reviewed 7 hosted and open-source search alternatives across price, developer experience, and e-commerce support. Here's the honest breakdown.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/3/2026
DevStream, a B2B SaaS platform for developer documentation, replaced a self-managed traditional search backends cluster with AACsearch, eliminating 20 hours of DevOps overhead per week and cutting search latency by 10x.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/3/2026
What the search-as-a-service landscape looks like in 2026 — AI-powered semantic search, the decline of legacy search engines, multi-modal search, cost trends, and what every SaaS founder should know about search infrastructure.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/3/2026
Adding search to a Next.js app with App Router takes about 30 minutes if you use the right stack. This guide covers the full setup — from indexing documents to a production-ready search UI with keyboard navigation, typo tolerance, and instant results.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/3/2026
AACSearch gives you a hosted search experience at $29/month for 1M searches. Here's how to get started, including API setup and a production-ready checklist.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/3/2026
NordikHome, a fast-growing Scandinavian furniture retailer, replaced managed search providers with AACsearch and slashed their monthly search costs by 5x while improving product discovery metrics across the board.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/3/2026
WooCommerce's built-in search is a MySQL LIKE query against post titles. It misses synonyms, typos, and partial matches — costing you real sales. Here's how to replace it with instant, typo-tolerant search in under an hour.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/3/2026
Visitors who search convert 2–3× more than browsers. Yet most merchants never look at their search analytics. Here are the 5 metrics that actually move revenue — and how to fix them.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/2/2026
A practical guide to improving e-commerce search relevance. Learn how synonyms, curations, and stopwords work — and how to measure their impact on conversion rate.
AACsearch Team
2/19/2026
From zero to production-ready search in 10 minutes — no infrastructure, no DevOps, no configuration files. Just sign up and start searching.
AACsearch Team
2/12/2026
Schema changes and full reindexing are the most dangerous operations in search infrastructure. Here's how AACSearch handles them with zero search downtime using atomic alias swaps.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/22/2025
PrestaShop's native search is limited. Here's how to replace it with AACSearch — full-text product search with typo tolerance, instant results, and automatic sync.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/15/2025
AACSearch delivers enterprise-grade search at a fraction of the cost. Here's an honest look across pricing, features, and developer experience.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/8/2025
Une comparaison honnête, fonctionnalité par fonctionnalité, entre AACsearch et MeiliSearch Cloud — tarifs, multi-tenant, analytique, géo-recherche, connecteurs et coût total de possession pour des cas d'usage en production.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/1/2025
Learn how to build a product search with faceted filtering using AACsearch — price ranges, brand filters, color swatches, and category navigation in under 30 minutes.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/1/2025
The key trends shaping search-as-a-service in 2026 — AI-powered ranking, vector search adoption, the shift from per-operation to flat pricing, and why multi-tenant architecture is becoming table stakes.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/1/2025
Add production-ready full-text search to your store in under 5 minutes — no infrastructure, no DevOps, no schema expertise required.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/1/2025
A deep dive into multi-tenant search architecture — how AACsearch handles data isolation, scoped API tokens, per-tenant rate limiting, and shared infrastructure without compromising security or performance.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/1/2025
Practical strategies for scaling search to millions of documents without breaking the bank — index sharding, document optimization, query patterns, caching layers, and when to upgrade plans.
Alex Chibilyaev
5/1/2025
Every great product starts with a problem worth solving. Here's the story of why we built AACSearch — and the pain points that made it inevitable.
Alex Chibilyaev
3/15/2025