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Everybody is familiar with the limitations of the built in search system in Miva Merchant. You are also probably aware of the inexpensive Power Search module which solves many of those limitations. This coming week is the ninth anniversary of the release of that module. Over the years I have continually added new features, but with this anniversary I added more than usual to the 5x version.
Using a 3rd party module for your store's search system is an inexpensive way to increase the chance of converting visitors into buyers, improve store navigation, and give the customer different ways to view and sort your products.
Some of the features in the current 5x version are:
- selectable field searching including custom fields
- store morph templates for page layout control
- field boosting to make one or more fields the most important (MySQL stores only)
- keyword density scoring of fields you specify to improve search relevancy (MySQL stores only)
- category and price range filtering
- and, or, exact phrase, begins with searches
- sort results on any field including custom fields
- compare products in a grid dynamically with custom field comparisons
- display recent search history by all or just the viewing customer
- admin log of searches for SEO, marketing, and keyword identification
- correlate search queries with actual sales in each order
- most popular searches cloud
- highlight search words in name and brief description
- count by category display with link to filter results
- autocomplete capable
- license per domain/mall
- no extra monthly or number of searches fees (other than your site's hosting and bandwidth fees)
- your data maintained on your server
For those who haven't looked at the module's features list lately, you might want to visit the product page at here It expands on the features list above, includes some screen shots, and has links to live stores to see how it works.
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