AI Hints
AI Hints writes a short answer above the search results when a visitor asks for it. The answer comes only from your own content: from what the best results of that same search say. Visitors get the answer at once, with the pages it came from right below it.
What visitors see
- A visitor searches. When there are results and the search has at least 3 characters, an AI Hints button appears above them.
- The visitor clicks it. The answer is written word by word above the results.
- It opens with one sentence that answers the question, then sets out the points as a list, with the names, numbers and dates the pages give.
- The × closes it, and the button comes back.
Only from your content
- The answer uses only facts stated in the best results of that search. Nothing is added from anywhere else.
- When several results bear on the question, it combines what each one adds into one answer.
- When none of them is about the question, it says so plainly: "There is no information about...".
- It does not name or link the pages it used: they are the results right below the answer.
Where it works
- The hosted search page and the search you embed on your site.
- The Drupal module and the WordPress plugin.
- Your own code: write answers from your own content by API: Answers and chat by API.
AI Hints answers one search. For a conversation, where your visitors ask follow-up questions and the bot searches by itself, use the out-of-the-box chat bot.
What it uses from your plan
AI Hints uses the AI of the plan of the account that owns the index. The free plan and every current plan include a monthly AI allowance of 500 AI requests; see pricing and API Quota.
- Each answer written counts as one AI request.
- The same question on the same results is answered again for free, and an answer that fails is not counted.