Examine 3.10.1 and 4.0.1 are now available on NuGet, addressing an analyzer issue that misparsed queries due to default analyzer caching. The fix ensures field value types are resolved before analyzer construction. Additionally, a new release process streamlines package deployment, promising more frequent updates. Release notes are available on GitHub.
An Azure AI Search provider for Umbraco Search
Søren Kottal introduces RazorSearch, a successor to Full Text Search for Umbraco, enhancing search capabilities with weighted titles and headings, background rendering, and inspection tools for extracted text. RazorSearch utilizes Umbraco Search abstractions, allowing for improved indexing and search result relevance, while maintaining independence from the search provider.
AI-powered search, chat, enquiry capture and external content indexing for Umbraco 17
Add on for the Umbraco Search Examine provider that adds a re-index function to the backoffice UI
Search rendered page content with Umbraco Search
Examine v4.0.0 has been released, featuring faceting, taxonomy indexes, and deep paging, following extensive community contributions. Built on Lucene.NET 4.8, it ensures backward compatibility with previous versions. The new release supports Umbraco's search abstraction, enhancing its functionality while maintaining stability for existing users. Documentation has been updated accordingly.
Enhance Umbraco site search with synonym expansion and diacritics-insensitive matching, managed from the backoffice
Bernadet Goey discusses using Erik-Jan Westerndorp's "Heading" package to allow editors to select heading levels for titles. A subsequent issue arose when custom titles were not searchable in the backoffice. By customizing UmbracoTreeSearcherFields to include language variant field names, the search functionality was enhanced, making custom titles searchable.
In a session led by Kyle Brigham from Marcel Digital, he discusses the shift from traditional SEO to Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and AI Discovery. Emphasizing the need for strategic website architecture and content creation, the session highlights adapting to AI-driven search ecosystems for improved visibility and effectiveness.
Examine/Lucene search extensions for Umbraco 13 (net8.0) and Umbraco 17 (net10.0)
ExamineX 10.0 for Azure Search and 7.0 for Elasticsearch have been released to support Umbraco 18, targeting .NET 10. Key updates include migration to Umbraco 18 APIs and updated dependencies. Upgrading is straightforward via NuGet, with no breaking changes to the ExamineX API. Author: @sdkits_software.
Jukka-Pekka Keisala introduces a free Umbraco extension for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), enhancing site visibility to AI crawlers like ChatGPT and Claude. The extension simplifies content structuring, improves discoverability, and provides analytics on AI traffic. This tool aims to make Umbraco sites ready for the evolving search landscape.
Kenn Jacobsen explains how to run Umbraco Search entirely in memory by reconfiguring Examine indexes. While useful for small sites or corruption workarounds, it increases memory use and startup database load, especially in load-balanced environments, so persistent or external search solutions are generally preferable.
Umbraco Search will be integrated into Umbraco CMS version 19, replacing existing Examine search handling and core indexes. The new approach utilizes Umbraco Search abstractions for querying, simplifying implementations and allowing alternative search technologies. While breaking changes may occur, Umbraco Search can coexist with existing Examine implementations. Author: kjac.
Plug Azure AI Search into Umbraco Search as a fully-featured provider: filtering, faceting, sorting, culture/segment variants, and protected content out of the box.
An extension for Umbraco CMS providing a custom search engine integration with Typesense.
Umbraco Search provides an abstraction for search services in Umbraco, allowing for implementations using search providers such as Examine.