Results AI Search is built for sites with a lot of content, where the default WordPress search struggles most.
What keeps it fast:
- A dedicated index table with full text search, rather than scanning your posts table
- Ranking done in the database, so only the best matches are ever sent to the browser
- Typing is debounced, so a request is only made when the visitor pauses, not on every keystroke
- Each new request cancels the one before it, so nothing queues up
- The search assets load only on pages where you placed a bar
What this means in practice:
A site with several hundred pages, plus posts and custom types, returns results in a fraction of a second. Adding more search bars costs nothing extra, because they all share one index.
Keeping it lean:
- Only switch on the content types people actually search for
- Use category filters to keep large types focused
- Exclude pages that should never appear, such as checkouts
Hosting notes:
The plugin works on standard shared hosting and needs no external service, no account and no API key. Everything runs on your own site, so there are no ongoing service fees and nothing to go down.