New Site Search (Beta)

The new Site Search is currently in beta release, and is available for all Yahoo! Merchant Solutions accounts and Yahoo! Store accounts.

General Information

• Who can use the new Site Search beta?
• How is the new Site Search different from the previous Site Search?
• New Site Search features released in February 2012

Enabling and Customizing

• Enabling the new Site Search (standard Editor 3.0 templates)
• Enabling the new Site Search (standard Editor 2.0 templates and custom templates)
• Enabling the new Site Search for Web Hosting stores
• Will publishing Store Editor publish my saved Site Search changes?
• Previewing the new Site Search
• Disabling the new Site Search
• Search Result Settings on the Site Search Settings page
• Visual Display Settings on the Site Search Settings page
• Search Filter Settings on the Site Search Settings page
• Where can I find category IDs for the "Categories for category drop-down" feature?
• Enabling promoted items for the new Site Search
• New Site Search default settings
• Custom template help for adding Customer Registration links and Floating Cart to the search results page
• Creating a custom RTML template for the search results page
• Information for stores with search on checkout pages
• What is the Previous-nsearch-page-template variable?
• How long does it take for new items to appear in search results?
• Excluding an item from your store's product search results

Troubleshooting

• New Site Search beta known issues
• I enabled the new site search but don't see it on my site
• My category names display in all-caps in the category drop-down. How do I fix this?
• There is a JavaScript error on my search results page (Editor 2.0 templates and custom templates)