Glossary

AJAX Crawling

AJAX crawling is the practice of making JavaScript-rendered content indexable by search engines using SSR/prerendering or dynamic rendering and clean, linkable URLs.

Absolute Boosting

Absolute boosting is a ranking strategy in search and recommendation systems that pushes specific items or categories to the top of results, regardless of their natural relevance score.

It is often used in e-commerce search to promote high-margin products, seasonal campaigns, or business-priority items.