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Honest guides — including when Findalo is not the right choice.
AI
It uses the same index as your search, so it can't recommend what you don't sell. And when it doesn't know something it says so, and that list is the report of what your store is missing. What it costs and when not to buy it.
· 6 min
Trust
The three uncomfortable questions almost no website in this industry answers: what happens if we go down, if we close, and if you want to leave. With the availability commitments and where there aren't any.
· 6 min
AI
The three layers an assistant needs in order to use your catalogue: being readable, being understood, and being able to answer with your data. With the warning up front that none of this is measured.
· 7 min
Comparisons
Eight site-search tools for online stores compared on what each one publishes: how they charge, entry price, free trial, platforms and whether you can sign up without talking to sales. Data checked in October 2026.
· 8 min
PrestaShop
How to tell there's a new version (the amber notice in the panel) and the two ways to update: with the module's own button or by uploading the ZIP in the module manager. Includes what to do when the panel says so and the module doesn't yet.
· 5 min
Migration
A seven-day method to run both at once, compare them with your own data, and turn off the old one only when you're convinced. Includes what you always lose when you switch.
· 7 min
Search
Three things about French that break search engines and don't exist in English: the apostrophe that splits words, the accents half your customers don't type, and hyphenated compounds. With the ten-minute review.
· 6 min
Search
Why semantic AI doesn't remove the need for synonyms, the four types that move sales in a Spanish-language store, the ones you should never create, and how to find yours in half an hour.
· 7 min
Pricing
The two real costs of running a search engine, why we bill on catalogue size, and what actually happens if you go over on searches or products. With the five questions to ask any provider.
· 7 min
Guides
Six situations in which you shouldn't buy a paid search engine, ours or anyone's, with what to do instead in each. And the six conditions that do justify one.
· 6 min
Analytics
The no-results counter lies by design, and the better your search engine the more it lies. Which signal actually works, why your analytics may see no searches at all, and what to do with the list each month.
· 6 min
AI
For every product and in every language, the AI writes the phrases a shopper would use to ask for it: what it's for and what people call it. Real examples from a minerals shop, a medical instruments catalogue in German and a chain of shoe shops. Included from Pro up, with nothing to configure.
· 7 min
Integration
We lost a customer in twenty minutes at the connection step. This is the guide they needed: the route that always works, the token that locks the module out, and what to check on the first sync.
· 6 min
PrestaShop
What that rebuild actually does and the five things it never touches: visibility, minimum word length, ignored words, zero weights, and the words that get discarded in silence. With the ten-minute review that fixes most of it.
· 8 min
Guides
Fifteen tests you can run today against any store, with nothing to install. How people really type, what to look for in the results, the two blind spots in your analytics, and when the problem isn't search.
· 8 min
Plans
200 products, 1,000 searches in total and no card. When the month or the searches run out, search stops responding and, if you don't move to a paid plan, the account is deleted 30 days later. What we warn you about, how to continue with Starter or Pro (14-day free trial), and when the trial won't help you decide.
· 5 min
B2B
Their price, because each one has their own terms. And their catalogue, because they shouldn't see products they're not meant to see. Plus SKU search, pinned results and a search tool for your team.
· 8 min
Partners
The commission is the least of it: the real value of a search engine for an agency is the development it generates — and we send it your way. Peer-to-peer collaboration and 20% recurring.
· 3 min
Recommendations
Best-sellers, similar items, frequently bought together, recently viewed... how to choose each carousel's logic, narrow it down by brand, category or price, and combine conditions with rules. With real screenshots of the result in the store.
· 6 min
Comparisons
What each one actually costs month by month, with an example store doing 100,000 searches. Why Doofinder charges per SKU and Findalo does not.
· 7 min
Migration
How to export your Doofinder configuration, map boost rules and synonyms to Findalo, and turn off Doofinder only when you're convinced.
· 6 min
Analytics
Lift-test framework to quantify what search contributes to conversion. Simplified formula, numerical example, and when the SaaS pays for itself.
· 5 min
