Unleaded Group Launches Apache Solr Development, Vastly Improving On-site ...
Denver, CO (PRWEB) February 25, 2012
Unleaded Group, Denver’s premier website design and development agency with an emphasis on e-commerce platforms, announced today the launch of development integration for the highly intuitive Apache Solr on-site search engine for Magento Enterprise websites, a blazing fast upgrade for Internet merchants that improves the site visitor experience, boosts the conversion rate for online sales, and streamlines web store administration.
Solr is an open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project, and includes such major features as powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.
The advantages of Solr for Magento Enterprise online merchants are impressive. The typical on-site search capability built-in to the shopping platform is limited to a very rigid set of keywords and attributes set up by the merchant in a structured database, so site visitors and merchants alike have to be very specific to yield search results that match the products and services sought. This often results in dead ends or multiple searches, both frustrating roadblocks known to prompt shoppers to leave the site entirely.





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