The need to feed a database behind your own online search with pre-structured information is now a thing of the past: the Open Source Systems firm AOE media today launches a new search solution based on the Apache Solr search engine. The new search, called “Searchperience”, runs in the cloud and thus does not require the user to maintain either a CSV or an XML database in order to display facets or categories.
The error tolerant, “fuzzy” search method meets all modern criteria including Auto-Suggest, Filter, Facets, pre-defined search results and image analysis. The latter enables searches of images for faces or predominant colors. “To our knowledge we are the first and only company to offer a search service with such a comprehensive range of functions that requires no pre-structured data from the customer”, says Daniel Pötzinger, Director of Development at AOE media.
