[KinoSearch] Finding matching search terms

[Peter Karman]

On 12/31/2007 11:21 AM, colossus forbin wrote:

> This approach would make sense for a large site that expects a large
> set of search terms, but what about a small site expecting a limited
> number of terms, such as a small ecommerce site with a limited number
> of products. If a user misspells a product name, it would make sense
> to not only offer a corrected spelling, but perhaps suggest a similar
> product which is carried by the site. These actions would be done at
> run-time so it would be important to know which terms did not
> contribute to any hits.
> 

fwiw, I have implemented site-specific lectionaries using Search::Tools::SpellCheck. It
uses Text::Aspell underneath, and I just created a custom dictionary with the relevent
products, etc. Whether a given term in a query had any matches was ignored; what was
important was to offer suggestions of other queries to try.

-- 
Peter Karman  .  peter at peknet.com  .  http://peknet.com/


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