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Site Search

5 min. read

Unlocking Better User Experiences with Location Search

User experience (UX) is everything when visitors land on your website. When your visitors are looking for care, directories or in-person locations, one question dominates their mind: What’s near me? With...

Higher Education

5 min. read

Research Bites: The Site Search Wake-Up Call Higher Ed Can’t Ignore

Half of higher ed teams say their site search frustrates users–despite ranking it a top priority. See why this gap matters and...

Higher Education

6 min. read

Research Bites: You’re Updating Your University Website Weekly — But Can Students Find the Content?

Almost 3/4 of higher ed marketing teams publish content weekly or ad hoc, but 43% say it takes a week or more...

Site Search

12 min. read

What Is Conversion Rate Optimization? A Marketer’s Guide to Turning Website Visits into Results

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is the process of improving your website’s design, content and user experience to increase the percentage of visitors...

AI

8 min. read

2025’s Biggest AI Search Moments and What They Mean for Your Website

AI search changed how visitors use your site search. See SearchStax’s practical AI approach: Smart Answers, Smart Ranking and human control that...

7 min. read

Designing Smarter Search Experiences with Practical AI

At SearchStax, we believe AI should be practical - enhancing human decision-making rather than replacing it. We’ve seen firsthand how businesses struggle...

7 min. read

Multi-Site Search Management: AI-Powered Search Experiences at Scale

Multi-site search management powers onsite AI search across all your websites while keeping data safe, teams independent and analytics actionable....

Site Search

10 min. read

What Is Marketing Agility and Why It Matters?

Marketing agility refers to the ability of marketing teams to quickly pivot in order to capitalize on shifting market forces, in contrast...

Site Search

6 min. read

SearchStax Leads the Way in G2’s Site Search Software Category

SearchStax named #1 Leader in G2’s new Site Search Software category, defining why Site Search now powers agile, modern digital experiences....

Site Search

5 min. read

Benefits of UI Kits Versus Drupal View

Learn the benefits of using SearchStax UI kits versus Drupal view and how they interact with the Search API....

Managed Search Service

Managed Search Solr

1 min. read

New Solr Vulnerability Identified – CVE-2025-66516

Learn about the critical Solr vulnerability CVE-2025-66516, including affected versions, risks, and recommended mitigation steps to protect your deployments....

Managed Search Solr

8 min. read

How to Keep Enterprise Search Compliant With EU Data Laws

SearchStax Managed Search now runs on Google Cloud Data Boundary, delivering EU data sovereignty, GDPR compliance and secure Solr scalability....

Managed Search Solr

4 min. read

New Solr Vulnerabilities Identified – CVE-2024-52012 and CVE-2025-24814

SearchStax Managed Search service team has identified two new Solr vulnerabilities - January 2025 update....

Healthcare

Uncategorized

6 min. read

AI Has Changed Student Expectations – Your Website Needs to Catch Up

Today’s students expect instant answers. Learn why outdated university search creates an AI expectation gap and how it impacts trust, engagement and...

Uncategorized

4 min. read

Top 7 Practical Moves to Improve Healthcare Marketing Right Now

Practical healthcare marketing tips you can use now to improve findability, patient trust and decisions. No new platforms, just smarter moves....

Uncategorized

4 min. read

New Solr Vulnerabilities Identified – CVE-2026-22022 & CVE-2026-22444

Learn about the critical Solr vulnerability CVE-2026-22022 & CVE-2026-22444, including affected versions, risks, and recommended mitigation steps to protect your deployments....

Higher Education

8 min. read

The Side Door Effect: How Smarter Campus Search Wins with AI-Savvy Students

Your homepage isn’t the front door anymore. Discover why AI-powered search is now the key to winning modern, research-savvy students....

Higher Education

8 min. read

From Content Chaos to AI Success: Why Higher Ed Must Clean House Before Going Agentic

Agentic AI, the new breed of autonomous, decision‑making software, is built to tackle both problems, but only if the higher ed content...

Higher Education

6 min. read

Research Bites: You’re Updating Your University Website Weekly — But Can Students Find the Content?

Almost 3/4 of higher ed marketing teams publish content weekly or ad hoc, but 43% say it takes a week or more...