Search Accuracy

[prashant10]

Hello,

I am building an e-commerce website for tools. (http://xtlabs.in)

When I search for something like below,
Combination Spanner Stanley 6 mm, it means
Combination Spanner is a category and is included in product title as well
Stanley is a brand and is part of product attribute
6 mm is the size and is part of the product attribute.

However, the result finds correct data for “Combination Spanner”, “Stanley”, but the sizes go haywire. “6” and “mm” are considered different and hence, all the sizes 1 mm, 2 mm, 3 mm, ….6 mm,….32 mm etc is being displayed. Also, 6 mm size is not even the first product to be displayed. It is somewhere in the result.

If the size is part of Title, the result relevance is a little higher, but if it is part of attribute, the search results are very inaccurate.

I am using the index table. An exact search is off.

Please can you suggest what can be done?

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

By default configuration both the index table and the search input ignores words below 2 chararcters. In your case this is probably an issue, as you want to match them exactly.
I suggest trying this configuration:
1. On the index table options, change the min. word length to 1 – then re-create the index table.
2. On the search instance option, change the min. word length to 1 as well
3. Use the following keyword logic

This should narrow the first set of results to match all the keywords, then the rest.

[prashant10]

Hey,

Index Table is already 1
search instance option – I set this to 1 and I also changed the keyword logic.

The search accuracy has improved and it is now showing correct results.

Thanks.

Should there be any futher problem, I will open a new ticket.

[Ernest Marcinko]

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