Search Overview

Search in Remarkable Commerce Manager, allow you to guide users to a desired product or category and find what they are looking for. Remarkable Commerce search does a lot of data manipulation behind the scenes. In order to better understand how to manually optimise search. Here is some information on how search works.

Indexing Step

When product data is uploaded into Remarkable Commerce it runs indexing

• Analyzer parses through key product data
• Synonyms/Stopwords/Fuzzy/Replaces all run at this stage

Search actions

For a product to appear in the search it must satisfy the following criteria:

The text in the search box must be either

• ProductCode e.g. 136583 (exact match)
• Title (x – 1 words match e.g. Black Floral Dress weighted 2.0)
• Title (x – 1 with wildcard last word e.g. Black Floral Dre~ )
• Title (AND operator e.g. Black AND Floral AND Dress)
• Facets (x – 1 words match e.g. Black Floral Dress weighted 2.0)
• Description (AND operator e.g. Black AND Floral AND Dress )

To Summarise, the search will prioritise an exact match product code, then title in different weights, so if you type in the title of a product but mispell it or miss off the end it will still find it but it will be less heavily weighted.

The products found must be available so have the following settings

• StockTotal > 0
• Date Available BETWEEN Start and End

Must Not

• ExcludeFromSearch – TRUE

Spelling Mistakes

The search will still work if there are miss spellings, with the fuzzy word settings.

• Title Fuzzy search (x -1 words match with wildcard last word and fuzzy weighted 0.5)
• Description Fuzzy search (x -1 words match with wildcard last word and fuzzy weighted 0.5)
• Facets Fuzzy search (x -1 words match with wildcard last word and fuzzy weighted 0.5)

Search Settings

These are the areas it is possible to control using Remarkable Commerce, these are controllable through Search Rules.

• Control boosting on non-fuzzy Title/Description/Facets
• Control using Fuzzy search
• Control using productcode
• Exclude out of stock products flag
• Instant search return DidYouMean
• Instant search return Typeahead/autocomplete

To find out more about the features and actions available in search see Search Features