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by liamca
3800 days ago
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[Full disclosure, I work on a service called Azure Search] Very nice site! Since your site is so much based around search, I thought I would pass on a few suggestions based on what I saw. If you happen to be using a search based engine for your content such as ElasticSearch, SOLR or maybe Azure Search :-), there are a few simple things you could add to make the experience a little smoother. Suggestions in the search box are nice to allow people to quickly see results as they type. You could even add thumbnails of the images in the type ahead such as you see using the Twitter Typeahead library (http://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/). I also noticed that your search does not handle spelling mistakes or phonetic search (matching words that sound similar). Finally, through the use of Stemming, search engines can often help you find additional relevant content. For example, if the person is looking for mice, but your content has the word mouse in it, this will bring back a match. Since you don't have a lot of content, this can really help people find relevant content. Hope that helps. |
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Unfortunately, it's no longer maintained [0], plenty of unfixed issues. You could try a recent fork [1] :
[0] https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js/issues/1424
[1] https://github.com/corejavascript/typeahead.js.