A Search That Forgives Typos: How Typo Tolerance Actually Works
Someone types "hummingbrid" instead of "hummingbird" and your search shows nothing. A typo-tolerant search engine is supposed to catch that. Here is what "catching it" actually requires, and where the easy version of it…
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PrestaShop Product Filters: Why The Number Next To A Filter Sometimes Does Not Add Up
A shopper ticks a filter that promises 12 results and gets 8, or the other way round. It is not a UI quirk, it is one of the most common problems in faceted search, and on a large catalog it has a very real cost in…
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Why PrestaShop Checkout Slows Down When You Add an External Search Engine
Adding Elasticsearch or a similar engine to PrestaShop improves search, but if the index update is done poorly it can slow down checkout itself. Here is what actually happens when a customer changes a cart quantity.
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Why PrestaShop Search Slows Down As Your Catalog Grows
With a few hundred products, PrestaShop search always feels fine. With tens of thousands, it starts to choke. Here is where the time goes, measured on a real 200,000-product catalog.
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