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Solr in Action
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Solr in Action

by Trey Grainger, Timothy Potter
March 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
664 pages
21h 15m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 10. Query suggestions

This chapter covers

  • Spell-checking
  • Suggesting query terms
  • Implementing a predictive instant search experience
  • Suggesting queries based on past user activity

In this chapter, we introduce two simple features to help improve the usability of your search solution. Specifically, we cover spell-checking and autosuggest. Spell-checking addresses the problem of misspelled query terms, leading to poor search results. You’ve probably seen an incarnation of spell-checking when using your favorite web search engine and it asks, Did you mean ...? Spell-checking is a crucial feature for helping users who don’t take the time to craft perfect queries, especially in mobile environments.

Autosuggest helps users as they type by ...

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