Intercom Keyword Search Fails to Surface Past Conversations
Support agents occasionally cannot locate previous customer conversations using keyword search in Intercom. This affects support team efficiency and institutional knowledge retrieval. The gap is situational and tied to Intercom's specific search indexing limitations.
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