We're glad to announce the third version of WordPress Sphinx Search plugin.
WordPress Sphinx Search plugin allows to use Sphinx Search Server power to enable ultra-fast and feature-rich search on WordPress-based websites. It is especially useful when your WordPress site becomes very large.
The new version enables a range of new tools that improve search quality and can help you increase your site's rankings in search engines like Google and Bing.
With this version search results are more relevant, you can perform searches in posts, pages and comments using flexible search syntax sorting the results by freshness and relevance. This plugin comes with sidebar widgets to display the most recent searches, top searches and related searches.
New "freshness & relevance" search mode lets you sort results by relevance within time segments. It is perfect for blogs and news sites as new relevant posts will rank higher than old ones not allowing old information to take best positions in the search results. This mode is on by default.
This is a great tool for SEO and navigation on your site, it shows relevant search phrases for different sections of your blog:
For example if site visitor is on your product page the widget will analyze the page title and will show the most relevant search terms. When visitors search for "ipad", other relevant search terms that include "ipad" will be displayed in this sidebar widget.
And the most tasty:
