Expertrec’s Magento custom search module adds search autocomplete, spell correct features to your Magento store. Here are some screenshots of the search features built using expertrec Magento custom search module. Price begins at 9 USD per month (paid annually).
Autocomplete– Search autocomplete or typeahead to make sure your customers find the right products within the shortest time
Spell correct- Spell correct features for your Magento store so that you don’t lose sales on your Magento site. Here you can see that the Magento custom search module corrects spelling errors to show the right. Search for “alddin” shows the right Aladdin products to the user.
Search results page- Deliver a google-like search results page experience on your Magento store.
Steps to create a custom search engine using expertrec Magento custom search module.
- Go to https://cse.expertrec.com
- Enter your website URL.
- Copy the code from your expertrec control panel.
- Wait for the crawl to complete
- Replace your Magento search box with expertrec’s search box- For this step, you might need the help of your developer. The template for Magento search box can be found at app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalogsearch/form.mini.phtml. We will change this so it will call expertrec’s custom search code. Change this from:
<form id="search_mini_form" action="" method="get"> <div class="form-search"> <label for="search"> __('Search:') ?> </label> <input id="search" class="input-text" name="" type="text" value=""> <button class="button" title=""> <span> <span> __('Search') ?> </span> </span> </button> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> </div> </form>
to the code, you copied from your expertrec control panel.
- That’s it, you have added expertrec’s custom search module to your Magento store.