CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1948121
user1948121

Reputation: 21

Magento Search issues

I am having some search issues with our Megento Store. We are trying to add spelling differences to our store so when someone spells a product name wrong in our search bar it displays the product they are searching for.

At first I thought this will be a doddle simply go to Catalog > Search Terms > Click on the product and add a Synonym for it.... However this didn't work.

If it helps our store can be found here: http://bit.ly/aOZqBv and the search bar can be found at the top right hand side of the screen.

As a an example of a product search term we are trying to generate a product result for is a follows: If a user searches for a work optimise we want our website to then display results for the product optimeyes.

I believe at the early dev stage of this website the search bar was altered in some way from a basic search box which would display seemingly random results when searching for a product, to the advanced search box to deliver better results.

I think this issues may require some code to make the change rather than just a simple fix via the admin panel, but what this code looks like I am unsure.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

P.s Magento ver. 1.7.0.0

Upvotes: 2

Views: 372

Answers (1)

obaranovsky
obaranovsky

Reputation: 165

Stock Magento does not allow to include misspellings automatically. You might want to add some popular misspellings of your products to the list of keywords and include the keywords to the search index.

Alternatively you can check out the Advanced Search extension, it allows to add "search similarity" i.e. looking also for similarly sounding or misspelled versions of your search keywords based on the words' "soundex" index.

Upvotes: 1

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