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[wjbrewer]

Typo, that should be auth.php

[crazyoval]

Thank you Bill, I look forward to it.

My site is getting to the point where it is functionally key for this to be the main way customers will find appropriate products. each of my categories have pages and pages of products and this has got to be the worst way to present a choice to a customer. If a customer can come in a really define by using keywords and narrow their choice down from say, 50 options to 10, then I would expect there is far more chance for a person to purchase a product.

I want to consider this as part of the top page of both my sites in future.

Thanks

[mistaegoista]

Originally Posted by wjbrewer

Hope to have this up later this week.

Sorry to be nagging, but has there been any progress with the Extra Field search?

[crazyoval]

..and me... I have a non-live site that you can test it on with a bunch of mods on it if you are interested Bill.

[starwest]

Originally Posted by wjbrewer

Hello.

This sounds like a problem with the 4 letter MySQL word limit, which would cause the incorrect results for 'tea', and 'Pau'. You can edit this by changing (or adding) this to the etc/my.cnf file:

ft_min_word_len=2

or

ft_min_word_len=3

--

Also, the Smart Search uses a natural language search. What this does is assign every word a value, and score this in relation to other words. Basically, rare words are scored higher than common words and product results are based on:

1. Word frequency.
2. Word placement (a word in the title is worth more than a word in the description).

So if you search for 'Chai Tea', the first results with be:

1. Products with both words in the title
2. Products with a single word in the title and both words in the description.
3. Products with both words in the description.
4. Products with a single word in the description.

And all based on word value and density. So if the word tea is used 10 times in a description this will rank above one that uses the work 8 times.

I hope all of this makes sense.

Hi Bill,

That all made sense, but unfortunately I had to wait until now to make the change you suggested (my host would not make it in the shared environment, but now that isn't an issue). I do have a follow up question re:relevancy though.

On a multiple term search, does Smart Search score products which contain the words as a phrase higher than those that do not? In other words, would a search for the terms 'green tea' score a product named 'gunpowder green tea' higher than 'green chai tea' if all other factors were equal?

[crazyoval]

Hi Bill, any news on the update to include custom field searches?

Thanks

[starwest]

Originally Posted by crazyoval

Hi Bill, any news on the update to include custom field searches?

Thanks

The update/add-on seems to be available for $29.99

[maildodge]

I was waiting for the update too - not gonna pay to get it as was told originally an update for the features i wanted would be available soon.

[crazyoval]

Thank you starwest

any idea what "Extra Fields - Static Pages & News Add-on" actually means? nowt in the manual or web page.

[starwest]

Originally Posted by crazyoval

Thank you starwest

any idea what "Extra Fields - Static Pages & News Add-on" actually means? nowt in the manual or web page.

I've got it on order and I'll let you know when I receive it. We need extra field searching, which I assume this includes given the title and the fact that Bill had a beta version available a year ago that searched through the extra fields. It should also include the option of searching through all of your static pages and news pages (which you can see in effect on websitecm.com - they've had a beta version for quite some time). If Bill does not post additional information before I receive and test out the add-on I will be happy to post some screen shots and a brief description.