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title: "Search Profile"
date: "2025-10-06T15:33:03+00:00"
summary: "Customize search experiences for different sites, subdomains, or user groups with SearchStax Studio's configurable Search Profiles."
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A Search Profile is a customizable configuration that defines how search operates for a specific section of sites or audience types. For more information, visit [Search Profile](https://www.searchstax.com/docs/searchstudio/searchstax-studio-relevance-model/).

Use cases
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Common uses for a Search Profile include:

*   **Multi-Site management**: Site A, Site B, and Site C can share Search App to simplify Search App management overhead. A Search Profile is created for each site. This setup provides a consistent search configuration and allows site-specific relevancy adjustments and search result restrictions to the indexed content on each site.
*   **Subdomain search**: A site and its subdomains, each with dedicated search experiences, share a single Search App. This eliminates redundant content indexing. The main site uses the main Search Profile, while each subdomain has its own Search Profile.
*   **Search personalization**: Customize search experiences for different user groups, such as authenticated and anonymous users, personas defined by marketing landing page IDs, or staff versus non-staff.

Precedence of relevancy features
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Search Profile applies configurations in this order: Data Filters, Ranking, Rules, Smart Ranking, and Promotions.

Features in a Search Profile
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The following table outlines the features available in the main Search Profile and all additional Search Profiles:

Feature

Main Search Profile

Other Search Profiles

Analytics

✔️

✖️

Auto-Suggest

✔️

✖️

Data Filters

✔️

✔️

Faceting

✔️

✖️

Promotions

✔️

✔️

Ranking

✔️

✔️

Related Searches

✔️

✖️

Results Fields

✔️

✖️

Rules

✔️

✔️

Search Fields

✔️

✔️

Smart Match Assist

✔️

✖️

Smart Ranking

✔️

✔️

Sorting

✔️

✖️

Spell Check

✔️

✖️

Sorting

✔️

✖️

Stopwords

✔️

✖️

Synonyms

✔️

✖️