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Overview

An enhanced version of the quick search. Provides much better results than the one that came with Magento.

An enhanced version of the quick search. Provides much better results than the one that came with Magento. The enhanced version allows to you search for separate terms instead of just exact phrases.

Example:

Searching for 'iPhone Case Hot Pink' turn up 0 results with the built-in Magento search function, because I don't have any products with the exact phrase:

http://www.geekgears.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=iphone+case+hot+pink


With the modify search function, the search return 11 results:

http://www.geekgears.com/catalogsearch/enhanced/?q=iphone+case+hot+pink

If wouldn't matter what the order of the search term is.

iPhone Hot Pink Case

Hot Pink iPhone Case

Case iPhone Hot Pink


Better "SYNONIM" support
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What's SYNONIM? It's just like synonym, but spelled differently. ;-)

To access your synonym list, go to you Magento Admin Panel. Click on "search" under the catalog menu. You should see a list of all the search queries that have been used. You can add your own search term if you want here. There is a column label "synonym for". What is this used for?

Say you have lots of products and accessories for the iPod Touch. All your names and description contain the word "iPod Touch". However, you realize from the search query list, customers are searching for "iTouch" or "i-Touch". However, "iTouch" and "i-Touch" does not return any results, because all your products and accessories have the name "iPod Touch" instead. However, you want all the searches for "iTouch" or "i-Touch" to match search results from "iPod Touch". This is where you would create a synonim.

So for the search query:

Search Query	Synonym For:
itouch	iPod Touch
i-touch	iPod Touch

Another good use of synonyms are abbreviations, such as TV, which is an abbreviation for television.

Search Query	Synonym For:
TV	television
mem	memory
hd	hard drive

Or you can use it for a plural form a search terms.

Search Query	Synonym For:
cases	case
televisions	television
speakers	speaker

RELEASE INFO:
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1. Easy installation. Just use Magento Connect Manager to install and that's it. Once installed, Enhanced Search will replace Magento's built-in search function.
2. Escapes parenthesis. Doesn't throw an error anymore if the search term contains parenthesis.
3. Better "Synonim" support.



INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
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If you have a previous version of Enhanced Search module installed, please uninstall it first.

Use Magento Connect Manager to installed. Once installed, Enhanced Search will replaced the built-in search function that came with Magento. If it doesn't seem to take effect, try clearing out your cache files.

To disable the Enhanced Search module and revert back to Magento's built-in search function, just uninstall the module through Magento Connect Manager.


Look out for the Enhanced Search Pro which will include a number of extra functionality and will be a separate extension, unlike this Enhanced Search which replaces an existing Magento core file.