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Description

Sematext's Related Searches products offers the familiar "People Who Searched For This, Also Searched For..." functionality. When a person runs a query X, the Related Searches service offers several other queries other people who run the same X query have performed. You might have seen this functionality on Google's search results pages, and possibly in commercial enterprise search vendors' offerings.

Business Value / Benefits

  • Better search experience
  • Increased sales for ecommerce sites
  • Increased ad sales due to increased page views per visit, increased visit frequency, and increased time on site

Do You Need It?

How do you determine if Sematext's Related Searches is for you?
  • Your service/business benefits from people discovering and finding content or products you offer
  • Your service/business loses revenue if people don't quickly find what they are looking for

Integration

Integration with any web application is seamless and consists of two parts:
  1. Search Beacon
  2. Related Searches Service
The Searcg Beacon is a simple servlet that collects query information such as query strings, session IDs, user IDs, etc. It is integrated into pages as a pixel-sized image completely invisible to users.

The Related Searches Service is a simple servlet with a REST API. Given the query string, the service returns a list of related queries, ordered by the strength of their relatedness to the input query. To display related searches in the search results pages, the web appplication that executes user queries typically communicates with this service, gets related searches, and passes them to the user interface layer for display.

FAQ

Q: Does Related Searches product work only with Lucene or Solr ?
A: No, Sematext's Related Searches is vendor neutral - it works with Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Google Search Appliance, Endeca, FAST ESP, Autonomy, Attivio, Vivismo, DieselPoint, etc.
Q: When are related searches computed? In real-time?
A: Related searches are (re)computed periodically - in batch. The frequency of recomputation can range anywhere from every few minutes to weekly, depending on the nature, need, and scale of the application.
Q: How is search relatedness computed ?
A: Please get in touch if you would like to find out more about our secret sauce.
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