We have been with Searchspring for years, but its a little priceie for the traffic I have, Are there any other alternative out there people like?
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Old man William "Bill" Weiland (affectionately speaking of course) had a great solution called Power Search that he sold to Miva, they still have it on their apps store:
https://apps.miva.com/power-search.html
We actually own a copy, but was too complicated to for me at the time to implement to our Levels ReadyTheme at that time, and we have not revisited the project in two years.
We are contemplating changing current ReadyTheme and will be reevaluating the possibility of incorporating the Old Man's Power Search solution.
Thinking out-loud, once Colossus ReadyTheme is fully completed, we will compare the ReadyTheme with Shadows and decide whether to go with Colossus or use Shadows as our foundation and just use Colossus mega menu with flyouts solution.
I am hoping Power Search will be easier to implement, last time I tried to implement it was very complicated. Of course I welcome any and all comments and suggestions regarding same.Thank you, Bill Davis
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Originally posted by lickx View PostThanks, William, I am familiar with Power Search. I am hoping to find a competitor service like Searchspring. I like most of there features, but just at a lower cost. I know I might be unrealistic. So I might be stuck with Searchspring.Last edited by William Davis; 07-12-18, 09:05 AM.Thank you, Bill Davis
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Originally posted by lickx View PostThanks, William, I am familiar with Power Search. I am hoping to find a competitor service like Searchspring. I like most of there features, but just at a lower cost. I know I might be unrealistic. So I might be stuck with Searchspring.
Have you checked pricing with Nextopia? (nextopia.com). Similar and in some ways better than SearchSpring (especially support is much better). If serious, I believe I can get you a little bit of discount (we are in their partner program, but just because several of our clients use them...don't remember the right procedure but could look it up.)Bruce Golub
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Originally posted by Bruce - PhosphorMedia View Post
Have you checked pricing with Nextopia? (nextopia.com). Similar and in some ways better than SearchSpring (especially support is much better). If serious, I believe I can get you a little bit of discount (we are in their partner program, but just because several of our clients use them...don't remember the right procedure but could look it up.)
Finally, how effective are they on bilingual sites?Thank you, Bill Davis
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A few things.
Power Search should not be used any longer on new sites, our built in search that came out in 9.7 is faster, more powerful and designed to replace Power Search. Power Search has a number of performance issues that will crush your site in the long run.
I personally think SearchSpring is the best in class for the price, and they do a lot that our built in or Power Search don't touch. Marketing and Merchandizing features way beyond just fuzzy search. They can also cover context in a way that you can't do without a SaaS platform.
Nextopia and Unbxd are other lower cost options, but YMMV.
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Originally posted by Rick Wilson View PostA few things.
Power Search should not be used any longer on new sites, our built in search that came out in 9.7 is faster, more powerful and designed to replace Power Search. Power Search has a number of performance issues that will crush your site in the long run.
I personally think SearchSpring is the best in class for the price, and they do a lot that our built in or Power Search don't touch. Marketing and Merchandizing features way beyond just fuzzy search. They can also cover context in a way that you can't do without a SaaS platform.
Nextopia and Unbxd are other lower cost options, but YMMV.Thank you, Bill Davis
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I agree with Rick - SearchSpring would be my first option, but I guess it also depends on HOW SS is being used, i.e. doe the site/client use merchandising, marketing or any of the other now super cool build-in features? If the store isn't massive and SS is simply used on the search results page (many accounts still are) then build-in Miva facets would be the way to go IMHO.
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Originally posted by GDesigns View PostI agree with Rick - SearchSpring would be my first option, but I guess it also depends on HOW SS is being used, i.e. doe the site/client use merchandising, marketing or any of the other now super cool build-in features? If the store isn't massive and SS is simply used on the search results page (many accounts still are) then build-in Miva facets would be the way to go IMHO.Thank you, Bill Davis
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Originally posted by William Davis View Post
Sabine, what exactly are you referring as to "...site/client use merchandising, marketing or any of the other now super cool build-in features?" and "...would be the way to go IMHO."?
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I would love to migrate away from Power Search to Miva's Search, but as far as I know there's still not a way to "boost" specific searchable fields for relevance... or does Miva's built-in search have another way to achieve this?
For example, there was an issue that if a shopper searched for "skirt", quite often many non-relevant products that contained the word skirt in the description (Ex. "This top looks great with a long skirt..") would rank before actual skirt products in the search results. I would not want to completely remove the Description field from being searchable (it often contains important search terms) however I would want the Product Name to be "boosted" to be more relevant than the description field.Psydde Delicious
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