Options for powerful Search? (AI, Natural Language etc...)

[EvanGR]

Hello,

I am looking for options to add a powerful search engine in my store.
By powerful, I mean:

- Natural language support, understanding synonyms, detecting typos etc...
- Realtime suggestions as you type
- AI integration, with maybe a discussion style search (e.g. user types: "I am looking for something that will help me do X")

I am not looking for a pre-made solution, probably doesn't exist. I just want pointers and suggestions. I am willing to get my hands dirty with code.

Thanks!

[PRO]

I used to have something like this on my site.

I created an administrator component with JoomlaComponentCreator
I would store a column of keywords (triggers) , and then a column of custom results.

Then on the frontend. I would check for keyword= in the url. Then if search was true, I would then run through the keyword column in the database, if there was a match, it would display the custom results via links.

I would do misspellings etc.

1 thing I did with it was, I downloaded like a years worth of google analytics page views, and would look at just the search result pages, and the use keywords. If I saw synonyms , I would fix it with the custom result links.

It is a lot of work to code this, but It could end up paying off for you.