Question about search system, is there any way to change search system so it would make more relevant searches and for search term audio it would show some audio related products and not web cameras ?
I didnt purchase that script yeat, I am on a way to do that, but before I would like to solve that problem with search, so I am looking for something with search similar to nextag
Hi,
Could you perhaps post some examples of what you want to be able to type in, and then some product names that you want to come up in a search for those words?
What you are looking to achieve sounds quite complex, and may be something that is only possible with human interaction by adding search tags to every single product. The big price comparison sites are able to do this with armies of employees to manage the database, but is not something that would be practical on a smaller scale i'm afarid.
Either way, if you can give some more details about how you want your search to work I will see if there is anything that can be achieved with MySQL.
Cheers,
David.
Hi,
The quality of search results is really down to the combination of the quality of data (accurate product names) combined with the capabilities of MySQL's FULLTEXT indexing method. Whilst seemingly unrelated products may be displayed, if more relevant results exist they should be ranked higher in the results.
It is possible to code in some minor changes to the way search works. If you could email me a link to your site and some example search terms, together with the products on your site that you would expect to rank higher for those terms I will take a look for you and see if there is something that could be done.
Reply to your reg code or forum registration email is the easiest way to get me.
Cheers,
David.