1. Why does this appear live?
You see search results or product recommendations on your site and wonder why it is these products and not something else?
In this view, you can simulate any situation that appears on your live web-site.
First, select the widget which provides the results on your web-site (e.g.: for a search result page, select the widget 'search').
Second, depending on the case, you will need to indicate an extra information (e.g.: for 'search': the user search query, for navigation: the category id of the page, for similar recommendations: the product id of Product Detail Page, for basket: the list of product ids of the basket, etc.)
Finally, select the mode 'live mode with live data' because you want to test what is already live on your web-site (and not the currently unpublished changes).
When you are ready, click on the 'Get results' button an the list of results will appear on the rigth. You can do it several times with different parameters to compare different results. To go back to only one list, check "replace" and click on 'Get results' again.
In the result list, you will see the pictures and names of your products as they appear on the web-site as well as their scores in relative %. You can see more information about the product attributes in the Details tab (to add additional attributes, select the "fields" you want in the left and refresh).
Finally, to understand the score, go to the Explain Tab and check which one of your