Search is a bit random

[lloyd_borrett]

Thanks Rod, but I’m NOT keen on using Google Custom Search within Zen Cart. First, it’s a Google paid for product, which means the price is unlikely to be reasonable. I'd need a way to log searches for a while to know what it's likely to cost me.

Second, I’d need to see it working somewhere where it’s handled well within Zen Cart. Got any examples?

I’d prefer Zen Cart to be handling search just a bit better.

I would have thought it reasonably easy to improve the Zen Cart search to handle stuff with a hyphen. Search for a word with a hyphen in the keywords list, e.g. ‘air-spool’. Then add that term with the hyphen replaced by a space (e.g. ‘air spool’) and without the hyphen (e.g. ‘airspool’) to the keyword list. Then do the search.

Right now while writing product descriptions I have to be mindful to put all hyphen variants into the product descriptions, e.g. 'air-spool', 'air spool' and 'airspool', which typically makes them look a bit weird. It's not done for SEO (because the search engines handle it), but because of Zen Cart search limitations.

But I might be missing something.

Best regards, Lloyd Borrett.