Solr site search makes shopping simple
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The document discusses the integration of Solr, an open-source enterprise search platform, with Magento to enhance e-commerce search functionalities. It highlights Solr's features like faceted search, dynamic clustering, and improved search relevancy, which benefit online shopping by providing faster and more relevant search results. The document also notes notable users of Solr and its advantages over traditional MySQL methods.
Solr site search makes shopping simple
- 1. Solr Site Search Makes Shopping Simple September 21, 2011 Justin Robinson Ryan Street Email: jrobinson@crownpartners.com Email: rstreet@crownpartners.com Office: (937)-723-2173 Office: (937)-723-2306 Cell: (937)-684-2678 Cell: (937)-545-0496
- 2. Who is Crown Partners? • www.crownpartners.com • Magento Gold Partner • Enterprise Solutions • Strategy and Management • Strategic Planning and Sales Solutions • User Testing • eBusiness outsourced
- 3. What Is Solr? • Open Source • Major Features • Enterprise Search Platform from – Full-Text-Search Apache Lucene Project – Hit Highlighting • Scalable – Faceted Search – Distributed Search – Dynamic Clustering – Index Replication – Database Integration – Rich Document handling 10/23/2012 © 2011 Crown Partners. All Rights Reserved. 3
- 4. Solr History • Created in 2004 by Yonik Seeley at CNET Networks • In January 2006, it was given to the Apache Software Foundation • Throughout the next few years, it grew steadily with accumulated features thereby attracting a robust community of users, contributors, and committers. • In March 2010, the Lucene and Solr projects merged. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr Solr Users • Netflix • digg • eTrade • eHarmony • GameSpot • Apple Inc. • Sears • CNET • Ticketmaster • AOL Source http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers
- 5. Solr Features • HTML administration interface • Uses the Lucene library for full-text search Pluggable • Faceted navigation • Hit highlighting • Query language supports structured as well Full Text as textual search Search Scalable • • Replication to other Solr servers Distributed Search - enables scaling content Solr volume • Search results clustering • Extensible through plugins Faceted Embeddable Nav. • Pluggable relevance - boost through formula • Caching • Embeddable in a Java Applications Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr
- 6. Faceted Search Faceted search is the dynamic clustering of items or search results into categories that let users drill into search results by any value in any field. Faceted search has become a critical feature for enhancing findability and the user search experience for all types of search applications.
- 7. Why Magento + Solr? • One of the keys to Solr success is the ability to index and easily integrate faceted search. • Magento utilizes faceted filtering for its products through a robust set of customizable attributes. • Solr utilizes Magento’s customizable product attributes to determine search results. This type of faceting will bring in more relevant results to the customer’s search. • It’s easy to setup and use, (if you know what you’re doing)
- 8. Benefits of Solr + Magento Increased Performance Solr indexes Magento’s facets automatically for filtering and can therefore pull more relevant results faster than the out of the box MySQL.
- 9. Benefits of Solr + Magento Increased Search Relevancy Faceted indexes allow a customer to discover your products by more than just a product title or description. Magento’s facets can also be weighted to bring back more relevant results to the user based upon a search query. Product Title Product Description Product Attributes
- 10. Benefits of Solr + Magento Support for Spelling/Synonyms/Stop Words Solr allows for “fuzzy” searching with indexing and configuration files that let a site owner configure certain synonyms for common products or attributes. It also allows for returning results based upon misspellings or “close” results. It can remove common “stop words” from diluting your search results. Misspellings Synonyms Stop Words Search Results
- 11. Benefits of Solr + Magento Improved Layered Navigation Since Solr indexes Magento facets for searching, it can also bring them up and display them as facet filtering menus faster than Magento’s MySQL methods.
- 12. Questinos? (Solr would have known what I meant..) Rob Miller Email: rmiller@crownpartners.com Office: (937)-723-2310 Cell: (937)-723-2461