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Improve Search Results w/ Sphinx Search & Lucene Search Magento Extensions
A default Magento search is infamous for being inaccurate. As a result, your customers might not find the products or services they are looking for and you might loose sales.
By installing either the Lucene Search or Sphinx Search Magento extensions by Extendware you will definitely improve both the relevancy and performance of your Magento store search.
Purchase Lucene Search or Sphinx Search from $149 each »
Features
- Relevant search results
- High performance search in terms of speed
- Option to include results with less precise matches (Lucene Search only)
- Option to boost specific product attributes to increase relevance
- Option to boost or dampen certain shop products in search results
- Support of synonyms, e.g. laptop & notebook
- Multi-language support incl. English, German, Chinese, French & Russian
- Indexing of product & category tags
- Caching of search results
- Stemming with support of multiple languages
- Option to exclude stop words for reducing index size
- Hyphen & number tokenization
- Full UTF-8 support
Sphinx Search or Lucene Search – Which one to choose?
Whilst the search result relevancy of both extensions is quite similar, Lucene Search can be used on shared hosting plans with Magento stores having up to 10,000 searchable products in stock.
Sphinx Search, however, is requiring a VPS or dedicated server to work. It can be be used for an unlimited number of searchable shop products.
Purchase Options, Support & Updates
The Sphinx Search and Lucene Search modules can be purchased for $149 (CE) or $298 (EE) each. Both extensions come with one year of free updates and support. An installation service can be added for an extra $29.
Extendware are providing a 30 day money-back guarantee as well as a zero bug policy.
Purchase Lucene Search or Sphinx Search from $149 each »
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