Effective search solution is the first step to provide relevant data to the end users for any eCommerce site. The right combination of marketing rules and corresponding technical capabilities of the solution put you closer to end customer inline with the target customer. In this article we will cover some of the different characteristics of a search solution which you need to focus upon while choosing a search solution for your site.
Your data
The requirements for the search solution vary from organization to organization and business to business. Each organization or domain have different variations of data. Some deal with small end user facing data and some have huge internal data. The common case of eCommerce sites is to store products data and making those available to the end customers with the intention to provide end customers the flexibility to search for the right content.
Search Solutions
Now a days there are quite some options available in market to choose from the search solutions, ranging from open source to commercial products.