WP Engine Search

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Our mandateCore DevelopmentDeveloper AdvocacyAlpha ResearchAgency Outreach

WP Engine Labs

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GeoIP Search

Mercury

Our projects

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ElasticPress ElasticSearch

Standing on the shoulders of giants

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Based on Lucene

Document oriented, schema-free, high availability

ElasticSearch

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Lucene in a nutshell

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Drop in replacement for WordPress core searchSupports multi-site installationsWP-CLI for setup & reindexing

ElasticPress

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All the features of ElasticPressHosted ElasticSearch infrastructureRelated Posts

WP Engine Search

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Offload the database hits for searchFuzzy matching & stemmingCalculate document relevancy in ElasticSearchIncreased page views (related posts)Improved SEO by linking to

older posts

Benefits of WP Engine Search

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Can I haz it?

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Questions?