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. Every plan includes 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.