Groundbreaking AJAX Incremental Search White Paper Released

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(Free-Press-Release.com) September 1, 2009 -- SearchNavigator, the incremental search software based on Exorbyte’s high performance structured data search platform MatchMaker, has become a leading ecommerce search solution in Germany over the past few years. It powers some of the country’s largest ecommerce sites and has proven its worth with the interface designers, the content developers, and the product managers of web agencies, online content and ecommerce services.

Incremental search is sometimes called “incremental find”, “typeahead search”, “autosuggest”, “autocomplete”, “combo box”, “search as you type”, “filter/find as you type” (FAYT), “inline search”, “instant search”, “word wheeling” or even “Google suggests”. Incremental search is often opposed to “delimited search” in which a user is required to fully formulate a search query before the system starts processing the search request. Incremental search starts right when the user types his first few query characters. Search query suggestions or search results are instantly presented to the user based on his partially typed query milliseconds after each character stroke. On web sites these results usually appear in a JavaScript layer which loads and updates itself asynchronously as the user keeps on typing.

Interface design expert Jef Raskin says that “in spite of near agreement about the desirability of incremental searches most interface-building tools make it difficult or impossible to implement incremental searches.” Large bodies of content are mostly composed of text and data records of which users do not suspect the existence. Only a very fast approximate search engine can display these suggested matches with the speed and relevance incremental search requires. AJAX incremental search interfaces can give users a stunningly clear bird’s eye view into large and complex data sets.

Today’s basic AJAX incremental search interfaces can never give users a real sense of what, in the searchable content, resembles what they are looking for. Exorbyte has made some groundbreaking improvement on the traditional technology that underlies AJAX frameworks and AJAX applications when it realized that its advanced structured data search engine (MatchMaker) was capable of better supporting such dynamic web applications that most databases or search engines could. MatchMaker is effectively capable of reliably serving faceted search suggestions to millions of users, from millions of searchable indexed records, using algorithmic, phonetic and any other advanced scripted match sequence.

With its MatchMaker foundation, SearchNavigator is capable of suggesting near matches using its approximate matching technology. MatchMaker’s speed also allows displaying of real search results from the content, not just search query suggestions. The results can also be faceted, categorized, and described like on any advanced search results page.

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