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Originally Posted by RichieRich
Is there a difference between Cloudsearch and Instant search modules?
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Hi Richard,
Despite the visual similarity of the two search widgets, there is a huge difference between Instant Search and CloudSearch. The following are the main key points:
- CloudSearch uses separate search servers to take advantage of our search engine. Instant Search is completely self-hosted.
- Instant Search uses built-in X-Cart 5's search engine (based on simple database queries) while CloudSearch uses our own full-text search engine which we continuously improve. The main advantage is that the results are sorted by
relevance. It is extremely important to present the most relevant results first in the list. There are also other advantages that our search engine provides. It supports spelling correction, "did you mean" feature, suggestions, fuzzy search, language analysis for word stemming.
- CloudSearch searches categories and static pages in addition to products.
- CloudSearch is generally faster than self-hosted search solutions and it doesn't put an extra load to the client's server. This extra load can be quite big for search-as-you-type widgets since they issue a large amount of requests to the server.
For the more complete list of CloudSearch features please refer to the
module page.