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Fast, accurate search
The cornerstone of SearchSpring is it's ability to provide relative search results fast. It's been designed from the ground up to meet the needs of E-Commerce websites and can effectively index and search any type of structured data like product catalogs, blogs, forums and article databases.
Multiple feed support
SearchSpring now supports multiple data feeds, so you're not limited to just a product feed! Each feed can be independently configured and automatically indexed at regular intervals. SearchSpring easily supports the custom fields and structure of your data feeds, so any existing feeds can be leveraged instantly. SearchSpring will even regenerate your data feed automatically for you if you experience difficulty with timeouts on your web server (a common problem for Miva Merchant users on slower shared servers). All of this means that your users can search your product database, articles, blog and forum data using a single, user-friendly interface.
Powerful Search Configuration
SearchSpring provides lots of room for customization and fine-tuning. When you setup a new feed in SearchSpring, the system will automatically detect the fields in the header and allow each field to be custom configured for searching. Fields can be made searchable or faceted as desired.
Field Boost
You can even control the weight keyword matches against a particular field carry. For example, a keyword match against a product's name can boost a products ranking higher in the search results. This feature allows you to dial in the search results for your particular data set.
Fuzzy Search
Fuzzy search loosens the ropes a little on the keyword being search. For example, this may include mis-spellings, plurals, or a sounds like type. An example of fuzzy search would be a search for "Monstor". Fuzzy search would also look at "Monster".
Faceting: Faceted search filters and refinements
Faceting allows shoppers and website users to narrow or filter their search results by different metadata elements (things like price, category, size, color, style, etc.). This is a great tool to help shoppers quickly find the products they're looking and even helps them to get a sense of the type and depth products available in your store.
Synonyms
Synonyms help to fill gaps between your customers search queries and the keywords associated with your products and other searchable content. If many customers are searching for keywords that aren't a part of your content, you can easily add synonyms that will map to the appropriate keywords. Additionally, synonyms can be used to redirect searches for items that you don't carry to possible alternatives.
Dashboard and Reporting
The SearchSpring dashboard and reporting tools work to augment your existing web analytics tools (eg. Google Analytics) to help provide insight into your customers search activity. Reporting also helps to identify search queries that aren't performing well and target keywords that might be good candidates for new synonyms.
Search as hosted application
SearchSpring is part of a new generation of software that is provided as a hosted service, or "software as a service". It's different from traditional software in that it isn't installed on your computer systems. Instead it lives in our data center and is made available via web-based management and several APIs for integration within your website. There are several benefits to using hosted software, below are a few reasons.
Benefits:
- Simple, fast setup! Simply sign-up for an account, create your data feeds, point SearchSpring to them and configure how you'd like each field to be searched.
- Continuous improvement! New features are constantly being developed and made available automatically - there are no upgrade fees or support contracts to renew.
- No upfront costs! There are no start-up costs and no need to procure any special hardware or pay expensive web hosting fees.
These are just some of the incredible features SearchSpring has to offer. Contact us for a live demo.
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