What is an Ecommerce Site Search Solution?
An Ecommerce site-search solution is at its core, a search engine that is either built or is integrated with your Ecommerce website. It helps user in finding relevant products by comparing the keywords entered by the user on the search bar with the catalogue of products in the inventory. However, the mechanism isn’t as simple as it seems on the surface with complex mechanisms like product rankings, faceted search, semantic search and synonym management involved in the process. The only difference between an Ecommerce site search and Google search is while Google depends on context and text searching, the former relies on a structured attribute search with filtering and sorting playing key role! The numbers show crucial importance of the effectiveness of Ecommerce site search solutions. 30-40% of Ecommerce customers rely heavily on site-search options with the conversion rates estimated to be 6 times higher than the conversion rate of other shopping options at the website. Search users ...