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NoSQL For Dummies
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NoSQL For Dummies

by Adam Fowler
February 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
456 pages
10h 3m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 26

Search Engine Use Cases

In This Chapter

arrow Enabling customers to find your products online

arrow Making best use of all your enterprise’s data

arrow Supporting proactive user working processes

Search applications vary widely both in the kind of information that’s cataloged and in how users interact with search engines. For example, a hotel-booking website differs greatly from eBay’s site, which is different from Amazon’s site. Each use case has its particular features and approaches.

In this chapter, I discuss some aspects involved in providing user-friendly search capabilities in your application and in providing the behavior that you want your application to have.

Searching E-Commerce Products

There is an old adage in sales — “A customer not only needs your product, they need to know that they need your product.” However, the trick is to lead customers not only to the product most relevant to their search terms, but to what they really need.

The simplest form of search is a search of a single-product catalog; for example, searching for printer toner on Amazon.

In this chapter, I discuss how to use a search engine to provide e-commerce website product search capabilities.

Amazon-type cataloguing ...

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ISBN: 9781118905746