Magento will provide on-the-fly auto-completion of searches, giving suggested search terms and number of results directly below the search box. As a customer types printer, for example, the search box will fill in relevent searches with result totals, such as in the screenshot of Google Search below:

Magento also features advanced search, which allows Customers to search by Product Attributes defined by you, the Store Owner (for example: price range, manufacturer, category, etc). You’ll also have the ability to redirect certain search terms (to a custom landing page for advertising purposes, for example), and create synonyms for frequently misspelled words (typing “Mangeto” will automatically switch to “Magento,” for example), leaving complete control of the site’s search system in your hands.

This is only the beginning of where Magento can take your site’s search system.  In the future, the search will allow for misspellings, alternate spellings, and plurals of search keywords, helping your customers find exactly what they want.

Stay tuned for next week when you get to meet us, the team behind Magento, in the new Magento Videos and a brand new Magento website! You won’t want to miss them!

There is even an option to redirect a specific search term to a specified landing page. If someone enters the search term ‘Nike’ in a online shoe store the store owner can redirect this search result to a specially created Nike landing page, rather than listing all products that match the search term ‘Nike’.

That would be valuable info to have for a store owner.

We’ll post a blog item as soon as its up, so if you are reading the blog via RSS, you’ll know right away.

Thanks again.

Haven’t heard from you guys for a while now, and already miss you!

What previews do you prepare for us?

Thanks, Joe.

I had italy and finland in mind here, things like PostePay, BancaSella and paying through one’s eBank account in finland..

Let me know if I can do something?

Cheers,
still looking good

We’ll have a more formal post on this issue in the next few weeks.

This is usually because the target (or hit zone) is not always big enough to forgive user mistakes. Being Varien and all, I figure you have this covered, but just wanted to make sure…