Relevant Search

Everyone knows that standard Magento search is terrible. Search results have nothing to do with relevance. Your customers are not able to find exactly what they want due to the lack of the priority levels of product attributes used in search (name, description, etc.), hence all the search index is a mess.

Description

The extension allows to divide product attributes (those with ‘Searchable = Yes’) into 5 search priority levels: Highest, High, Medium, Low, Lowest. Each and every attribute can be configured whether it is used in search or not:
• Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attributes.

In the process of catalog search reindex, the extension forms separate fulltext indexes in the table “safemage_relevantsearch_fulltext” on which, in turn, the relevant search algorithm is based.

We use search algorithms of a high quality to make your Magento store search operate similarly to Google Search.

A brief glance at how it all works.

With a one-word search query that results in 5 products found, the search relevancy is computed this way:
• Product N1 has a match in the Name (highest priority index). Its relevancy score is (2 ^ 5) = 32
• Product N2 has a match in the Short Description (high priority index). Its relevancy score is (2 ^ 4) = 16
• Product N3 has a match in the SKU and Description (medium + low index). Its relevancy score is (2 ^ 3) + (2 ^ 2) = 12
• Product N4 has a match in the SKU (medium priority). Its relevancy score is (2 ^ 3) = 8
• Product N5 has a match in the lowest priority index. Its relevancy score is (2 ^ 1) = 2

With a 2 and multi-word search query, the results of the search depend on the extension’s configuration settings. There are 4 modes (algorithms) available:
• "Exact Phrase" - searches by a whole phrase as is
• "All Words" - searches by all phrase words in any order
• "Any Word" - searches by any phrase word
• "Selective" - automatically select which mode(algorithm) to choose (Exact / All / Any)

Extension enables easy and Relevant Search by both:
• Product Attributes
• Product Custom Options.

Features

• Google-like Search!
• 4 Search modes: Exact (whole phrase), All (all words in any order), Any (any word), Selective (combination)
• Search by any Product Attribute (Name, Description, ...)
• Search by any Product Custom Option
• 5 Search Priority Levels of Product Custom Option or Attribute: Highest, High, Medium, Low, Lowest
• Allow special chars in Search

Screenshots

Reviews(4)

• Great extension and an even better support
  After trying several other extensions I decided to buy the relevant-search by SafeMage. Installation was easy, just copy the files and clear cache etc. I had only a small bug, when searching I got an error. Wrote a short mail to the suport team and within a day everything worked fine as it should be. They even gave me advice to update my store and made a nice offer. Thumbs up for these guys.

  by dokterg60 December 15, 2016
• Quickly fixed compatibility issue with Magento 1.9.3.1
  I’ve upgraded Magento to the latest version recently. As a result, the search tool stopped to work, it worked like a charm until then though.
  So I contacted the Safemage support, and they replied that Magento made some changes in the latest version that affected the extension.
  Few hours later, they were releasing an update supporting Magento 1.9.3.1, and offering a free installation service to me! Do I need to say more? :)

  by yatoocom December 9, 2016
• A must have...
  Excellent solution for Magento's poor search system. Really light and fast handling our 6k+ products instantly.
  Support is outstanding.

  by greenforestdesign.co.uk November 24, 2016
• Works flawlessly!
  Relevant items go first indeed. The extension works pretty fast with my 12k products. It doesn’t require any additional servers running, special search data bases, etc. I just installed it, and it worked the way I expected it to.

  by seekinghealth.net November 3, 2016