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[ARCHIVED] Search Algorithm needs to be improved

  • April 22, 2021
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Ninna

So my issue is that in our web widget / answering bot, it will not locate any support articles if our customers write more than one word and i cannot change the text in it.

eg. "I need help with woocommerce"
= no results 

"woocommerce" 
= 6 results on support articles

Fyi. All 200 support articles have multiple labels attached to improve the search function in both English and Danish.

my problem gets worse because when you open the widget it says per default: 
"Ask me a question, and I will find an answer for you" ...

but instead it should say:
"What do you need help with? give me a keyword to search for" 

But apparently the text is hardcoded by the development team and cannot be altered not even with api or scripts integrated to Zendesk. 

This is a major issue for us as our team really needs to guide the customers over to our support articles as much as possible. currently, our help center has very little traffic but a ton of useful knowledge written as creative and light as possible. 

So in short please fix your search algorithm and make it possible to change the default (faulty) text to our customers

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  • May 12, 2021

Hi Ninna,

At this time, there is no option to configure the default message displayed by the Answer Bot when the user opens the widget. Sorry about this. But, we appreciate your feedback here, and your input will be aggregated as a part of our Voice of the Customer program that provides customer feedback to our product development teams. I hope that this flagged for product managers to review when they go through roadmap planning in the future.

About your other concern on article suggestion, I did a quick test with your widget and I wasn't able to reproduce the bahavior that you described. I will be creating a ticket from this so that we can investigate further, and investigate further.

Thanks Ninna!