WizSoft Search is a search engine designed to be embedded in –

• E-commerce websites or other websites where the data (for which the search is applied) are saved in records
• CRM, ERP, Bookkeeping programs where the user searches for accounts (customers. suppliers etc.) or items

The search method is similar to the one used by Google and Alibaba. While the user is typing the search query in the search box, the search engine suggests a list of words and names (autocomplete) and then lists the search results for a chosen query.

WizSoft Search’s algorithm rests on the following three components:

• Phonetic similarity
• Identical strings (starts with… includes…)
• The frequencies of the words in the data

The search for phonetically similar words and names is stronger than other algorithms such as Soundex  –  WizSoft Search will find the relevant word or name even when there is a mistake in the first character. Two words (or names) are considered similar if each of them has at least three consonants and one of the following condition is satisfied:

• The consonants of both words are identical and in the same order
• One consonant is missing or replaced in one word
• Two adjunct consonants in one word are swapped in the other word (transposition)

When the search query includes more than one word, during the autocomplete stage WizSoft Search suggests words according to the frequency of idioms in the website records.

Embedding the search engine in your web site is easy. See explanation here.

The owner of the data (where WizSoft Search is embedded) determines the tables to be searched (for example, the Items table) and whether some fields are more significant than others (for example, the item name might be more significant than the description of the item features).

WizSoft Search is scalable. It operates very fast even when the dataset includes several million records. You can see an application of WizSoft Search to Wikipedia here (applied on about 12 million records).