Case Study: St. Mary’s University achieves unified cross-domain relevant search and better program discovery with Elastic Site Search

St. Mary’s University Powering Search Across Multiple Domains

St. Mary’s University, a private Catholic Marianist university in San Antonio, was struggling with fragmented search across many internal and public websites. The school needed a single, easy-to-customize search solution that could span multiple domains, return relevant results, and give administrators control over terminology and result ranking.

Elastic Site Search provided cross-domain indexing, synonym and custom-result controls, and an analytics dashboard for continuous tuning. St. Mary’s used these features to build a Search by Interest tool (now used by 34% of visitors), simplify program discovery, track prospecting signals like campus visits, increase time on site, and consistently deliver more relevant results with positive user feedback.

St. Mary’s University

Elaine Shannon

Web Developer & User Interface Specialist