Re: Alternative searches

2013-08-14 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Can someone explain how one would go about providing alternative searches for a query… similar to Amazon. : For example say I search for Red Dump Truck : : - 0 results for Red Dump Truck : - 500 results for Red Truck : - 350 results for Dump Truck Well -- it depends on what you want

Alternative searches

2013-07-31 Thread Mark
Can someone explain how one would go about providing alternative searches for a query… similar to Amazon. For example say I search for Red Dump Truck - 0 results for Red Dump Truck - 500 results for Red Truck - 350 results for Dump Truck Does this require multiple searches? Thanks

RE: Alternative searches

2013-07-31 Thread Petersen, Robert
subsets of the original search terms. We only do this if the first search had zero results and then a double metaphone search (which is how we handle misspelled terms) also returned nothing. We also apply various heuristics to the alternative searches being performed like no one word searches