PPL Search Intelligence for Magento 2

PPL Search Intelligence owns intelligent Magento search results with query understanding, indexed product signals, MySQL candidate collection, explainable ranking, redirects, zero-result recovery, and optional Discovery Filters integration.

What It Adds

• Canonical search page and overlay product basis
• Indexing, backend routing, Redis/OpenSearch/MySQL options, query rules, behavior/ranking tuning, and profiler diagnostics
• Synonyms, corrections, zero-result recovery, redirect rules, and Test Lab screens

Requirements And Dependencies

• PHP: >=8.1
• Magento packages: magento/framework, magento/module-advanced-search, magento/module-backend, magento/module-catalog, magento/module-catalog-inventory, magento/module-catalog-search, magento/module-config, magento/module-configurable-product, magento/module-cron, magento/module-customer, magento/module-eav, magento/module-inventory-sales, magento/module-inventory-sales-api, magento/module-message-queue, magento/module-review, magento/module-sales, magento/module-search, magento/module-store
• PPL packages: ppl/module-hub
• Conflict: do not enable together with Ppl_ScoredSearch because the modules try to control the same search surface.

Installation

Install the required PPL packages in dependency order. Composer will skip packages that are already installed:

composer require ppl/module-hub ppl/module-search-intelligence
bin/magento module:enable Ppl_Hub Ppl_SearchIntelligence
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile
bin/magento cache:clean

Manual app/code installation: copy the dependency modules and this module into app/code/Ppl in this order: Ppl/Hub -> Ppl/SearchIntelligence. Then run the same Magento commands starting with bin/magento module:enable.

First Use

• Disable Ppl_ScoredSearch before enabling SearchIntelligence because both modules own search surfaces.
• Build the SearchIntelligence index before enabling the master switch, storefront suggestions, or search page ownership.
• Run SearchIntelligence index/rebuild commands or admin operations after installation.
• Pair with DiscoveryFilters only when you want filtered facets inside the SearchIntelligence product basis.

Admin entry: PPL Hub > PPL Search Intelligence.

Integrations And Boundaries

• Optionally cooperates with Ppl_DiscoveryFilters through the neutral ppl_searchintelligence_filter_integration event.
• Uses Ppl_Hub for navigation and for the neutral capability contract that shares search-page ownership and the materialized result set with Discovery Filters — SI reads the Discovery Filters index and publishes its result set through Hub capabilities, not sibling-module internals — plus Magento search/catalog modules for runtime data. Async indexing uses Magento_MessageQueue and requires a configured queue broker such as RabbitMQ when async mode is enabled.
• Stable: run the documented PPL release gates (setup:upgrade, di:compile, PHPUnit, SCD, production mode) in your environment before publishing this package.

Localization

The package includes translation CSV files for 12 locales: de_DE, en_US, es_ES, fr_FR, it_IT, ja_JP, nl_NL, pl_PL, pt_BR, ru_RU, tr_TR, zh_CN.

Customer Documentation

Customer-facing User Guides and Marketplace Long Descriptions are maintained outside the Magento module package in the repository-level docs/user_guides and docs/long_descriptions folders. The module package itself intentionally keeps only this technical README plus developer-relevant files.

Support

Support contact: [email protected]. Include the module version, Magento version, enabled PPL companion modules, and the relevant admin or storefront screenshot when reporting an issue.

Changelog

1.2.0

• Initial release.
• Added query understanding, MySQL candidate provider, explainable ranking and product signal rebuilds.
• Added admin Test Lab, hub-only configuration sections, CLI commands, cron jobs and core schema tables.
• Added optional configurable storefront suggestions, Discovery Filters integration and read-only internal provider status.
• Search result pages use Search Intelligence as the canonical product basis for product list rendering, Discovery Filters, toolbar totals, pagination and sorting.
• Added overlay fast-path payload mapping, action payload slimming, optional payload pruning and profiler payload parity.
• Added behavior-aware ranking gates that consume aggregated behavior signals; storefront behavior collection, impression tracking and purchase/return attribution are owned by the optional Ppl_Tracking module.
• Added Smart Discovery P0 payload support as an additive, read-only overlay field.
• Added Test Lab timing help and request-path details while keeping winner/loser row backgrounds neutral and limiting colored highlights to metric cells.
• Routed Search Intelligence <-> Discovery Filters cooperation through neutral Ppl_Hub capabilities: SI exposes the canonical search product set via the Hub SearchPageProductSetProviderInterface bridge and reads facet/filter data via the Hub FilterIndexReaderInterface, instead of reading a sibling module's tables.
• Declared an explicit magento/module-cron dependency and Magento_Cron load-order sequence so the bundled cron jobs (index bootstrap/rebuild, signal rebuild, knowledge-pack compile, result-set purge, async dispatch/advance) load deterministically.
• Normalized every ranking component to a common [0,1] scale before weighting, retuned the shipped default weights, and added a data patch that calibrates stored per-scope weight overrides onto the new scale so existing merchant tuning is preserved.
• Added optional async index rebuilds that fan a catalog rebuild out to the Magento message queue (one message per product batch, version-swapped only when complete) with a transactional outbox, per-minute dispatch/advance cron jobs and a broker-availability probe; falls back to the synchronous rebuild when no broker is configured.
• Extended product signal scoring with freshness (recency), return-rate, click-through and search-conversion terms and lifted the signal scale cap so strong products no longer saturate.
• Added search smoke/profile/recall diagnostic and corpus/benchmark/seed CLI commands that exercise the live SI + Discovery Filters result path through the Hub filter-index reader.