I would like to improve search functionality on our magento website: AND instead of OR in the default search field. Search suggestions and spelling corrections would be great.
Searching for this, I found the following modules: Elastic Search (http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/elasticsearch.html) and Sphinx Search Pro.
Elastic search is "search in the cloud", but I have no idea what that means here. Our magento installation is installed on AWS EC2, so in the cloud, but I don't see how that makes a difference. Search is performed on the database, or does it work otherwise, from cache or somehow?
What is the best module to use? Any other tips?
Best Answer
Sphinx Search Pro (or more extended version Sphinx Search Ultimate) very powerful solutions, which return highlevel relevant results.
For use these modules by default you no need install any additional software to server (+ these extensions not cloud servers, etc). All search performs on your server.
Additionally these plugins support search by multiple content types (product, categories, blogs, articles etc) http://ssu.demo.mirasvit.com/catalogsearch/result/?cat=0&q=shoes