Found, however they ask.

A misspelling or a vague description can still lead to the right result. Search tolerates typos, understands meaning and lets shoppers search visually and narrow by a colour choice instead of guessing the right keyword.

Storefront search results for sunglasses with category and colour swatch filters
Close-up of category counts and colour swatch filters
Zoom · visual filters
Forgiving

Typos and loose descriptions still land on the right products.

Beyond the keyword

Semantic search finds products by meaning, and visual search finds similar-looking ones.

Visual filters

Colour swatches and readable values, not codes a shopper has to decode.

01Filters

Filters shoppers can see.

Colour they can see, not codes they have to decode. Facets show the count behind every choice, and a filter a shopper has used keeps its siblings visible so un-ticking is always possible.

  • Colour swatches: a colour facet shows the actual colour, with a clear selected state.
  • Honest counts: the results, the facets and the page all describe the same set of products, so a count never promises what the page cannot show.
  • Category trees: choosing a category goes into it, so counts describe what is inside, not the whole catalogue.
Category, brand, colour, price and availability filters with colour swatches
02Visual search

Search by look, not just words.

Shoppers do not always have the word for what they want. Start from an image, find similar-looking products, then refine by colour from a visual selection.

  • Find similar: an image becomes a starting point for matching products.
  • Refine visually: narrow the matches with a colour choice instead of retyping the search.
  • The same filters apply: price, stock and other facets still narrow the results.
Find similar results showing a photo upload and a visual colour selection for Northstar Pilot
03Merchandising

Steer the results you know matter.

Search is not only relevance. Merchandisers get levers for the searches they know: synonyms, pinned and hidden products, boost and bury, and redirects. Rules can carry dates, so a campaign ends by itself.

  • Five levers: synonyms, pins, hides, boost and bury, and redirects, all editable without a release.
  • Counts stay honest: a hidden product leaves the page and the count together, and a pin does not sneak in something the shop does not sell.
  • Try a query: a built-in panel shows which rules fire for a search, and which rules in force do not match it.
merchandising rules

Rules in force

SY“shades” means sunglassesSynonym
PNPilot Slate first for “sunglasses”Pinned
HDDiscontinued frames removedHidden
BBClearance line lower in relevance resultsBury
RD“returns” goes to the returns pageRedirect

Boost and bury apply to relevance sorting only, so “price, low to high” stays a straight answer.

In practice

A shopper types “sunglases”.

Northstar Optics still finds the right frames, and every filter agrees with the page.

01

A typo is typed

The shopper misspells the word they are looking for.

02

Search understands

It tolerates the typo and finds the intended products.

03

A colour is chosen

The shopper narrows with a swatch they can see.

04

Counts match the page

Results, facets and the page describe one set of products.

Let your shoppers find it.

Bring your catalogue and the searches that matter most. We will show how they behave in a tailored demo.

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