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VirtueMart 2 + 3 + 4 => General Questions => Topic started by: hsvdiane on October 09, 2013, 00:55:24 AM

Title: Search
Post by: hsvdiane on October 09, 2013, 00:55:24 AM
One question for you is how the site search works.  Example, if you search for Masks, only a few masks show up but if you search for mask all of the masks show up.  Concern is that people can search for either or they can call things different.  For another example some people call patient bibs by the word bib and some call them napkins.  How can we get it to give the same response no matter which way they search?
Title: Re: Search
Post by: balai on October 09, 2013, 11:10:54 AM
QuoteFor another example some people call patient bibs by the word bib and some call them napkins.  How can we get it to give the same response no matter which way they search?

This is a semantic search and is the correct way to search

At the moment Virtuemart is not using semantic search but aboslute matching.
Title: Re: Search
Post by: Maxim Pishnyak on October 10, 2013, 10:11:21 AM
You could check 3rd parties in 3rd party forum, extensions.virtuemart.net and JED.

Check not only searching stuff but also content tags extensions.
Title: Re: Search
Post by: balai on October 10, 2013, 12:21:44 PM
By the way even google itself hasn't got 100% semantic search
This is their most hard challenge for years.

So i think that it is hard to find a search extension working this way, unless if you are using tags or other methods to add keywords to your products
Title: Re: Search
Post by: hsvdiane on November 05, 2013, 01:53:56 AM
I also need to be able to have the customer search the product #s without the dashes that are in my products.  Is there any place to put tags in the products